markodayan
Researcher & Engineer
Full Stack Developer and protocol researcher originating from a mechatronics engineering
background with over 4 years of professional experience in software development. Highly
versatile and technically adept, with the ability to work on systems of varying architecture
and functionality requirements. Core strengths lie with JavaScript/TypeScript development
and leveraging React for designing interfaces.
Experience: 3 years
Yearly salary: $100,000
Hourly rate: $50
Nationality: 🇿🇦 South Africa
Residency: 🇿🇦 South Africa
Experience
Head of Research
2077 Collective 2024 - 2024
Led research at 2077 Collective where I wrote, reviewed and coordinated technical research pieces ranging from topics like Ethereum core protocol to DeFi and rollup design.
Internship
Nethermind 2022 - 2022
Wrote developer documentation for a formal verification tool called Horus that was designed for analysing programs written in the Cairo smart contract programming language created by Starkware
Apprentice
Ethereum Foundation 2022 - 2023
Selected to participate in the 3rd cohort of the Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Engineering Fellowship. Developed a rollup analytics service to run as a sidecar to Ethereum and rollup nodes to produce blockspace insights in real-time.
Software Engineer
Avantcore (Pty) Ltd 2021 - 2022
Full-stack development of a digital asset trading platform specialising in multi-exchange portfolio management, and complex trade execution ranging from different types of orders, to multi-leg, automated arbitrage strategies. Worked on all parts of the system including frontend, backend as well as the deployment infrastructure which managed multiple containerised services with cross-communication.
Software Developer
Norrin Radd (Pty) Ltd 2020 - 2021
Full-stack development of an employee management system involving full-stack development which included developing client applications for both web and mobile (with publishing on both iOS and Android).
Junior Software Engineer
Xcallibre (Pty) Ltd 2019 - 2020
Designed and developed an application-specific hardware device that involved interacting with Bluetooth smart pens and submitting data payloads, whenever received on the device, to a server.
Skills
architecture
blockchain-engineer
cryptography
data-viz
research
tech-lead
technical-writer
full-stack
english