markodayan

Led the research team at a organisation focused on blockchain technical research. In this role I managed the research team, produced my own reports as well as decided strategy and content direction, acquired contracts with other businesses and represented the organisation at conferences. Some of my core work included producing research around blockchain system design, mechanism design and network modelling.

Selected to participate in the 3rd cohort of the Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol Engineering Fellowship. Conducted research around Ethereum rollup blockchains and built a dockerized rollup analytics service that runs as a sidecar to Ethereum and rollup nodes to produce blockspace insights in real-time. Developed an improved API for querying millions of blocks without being constrained by the limitations of Ethereum client’s RPC API.

Paid internship with an organisation behind an Ethereum core client implementation (blockchain nodes). Wrote developer documentation for a formal verification tool called Horus for analysing programs written in the Cairo smart contract programming language.

Full-stack development for a unified financial platform bridging traditional finance and digital assets as well as providing an autonomous arbitrage agent for high-frequency trading. Worked on both backend and frontend developing E2E features including real-time orderbook UI and trading pages. Worked heavily on building functional dashboard UIs and trading interfaces as well as financial reporting visualisation.

Contracted to develop a management system for administrators and employees and handover to the client at the end of the period. Developed a web and mobile client using React and React Native, a Node.js backend that included use of Redis and PostgreSQL for data access, set up deployment pipelines for mobile, web and backend, published and signed dedicated iOS and Android applications.

Software development incorporating hardware elements for a contract signing services company. The job involved developing a hardware device that integrated into the business's core product bridging real-world contract signing with software services. This involved using a minimum viable Linux-capable device to run processing logic and communicate with bluetooth devices as well as being capable of interacting with the company's backend system. The entire device's lifecycle was controlled via Linux daemons and executed various routines involving Python and Java as well as leveraging a Bluetooth SDK. The final form was a headless Raspberry Pi, programmed and connected to various integrated electronics and Bluetooth and Internet-capable, mounted in a mechanical enclosure and capable of handling real-world bluetooth data retrieval, followed by processing on-device, and then finally writing to the company databases on the cloud-managed backend.