miguelbits
Blockchain Engineer & Protocol Founder
Building DeFi protocols, CLOB exchange integrations, concentrated liquidity DEXs, on-chain derivatives, and backend systems from Lisbon to mainnet.
Experience: 5 years
Yearly salary: $76,000
Hourly rate: $50
Nationality: 🇵🇹 Portugal
Residency: 🇵🇹 Portugal
Experience
Founder & CTO
Satsuma DEX 2025 - 2026
Built a concentrated liquidity DEX with tick-based liquidity management inspired by Uniswap V3 architecture. Designed a novel o(3,3) tokenomics model integrating voting, locking, and emissions mechanisms.
Founder & CTO
Y2K Finance 2022 - 2023
Founded and built a derivatives protocol for stablecoin and pegged asset depeg risk, attracting $10M+ TVL in week one. Architected and deployed the Earthquake smart contract suite to mainnet with zero security incidents. Coordinated external audits, implemented remediations, and led protocol design through mainnet deployment.
R&D Applied Engineer
Nokia 2020 - 2022
Built real-time monitoring dashboards using Grafana and Prometheus across distributed Kubernetes nodes. Awarded Best FullStack Engineer in 2021 for an enterprise network monitoring platform.
Skills
solidity
english