reanblock
Blockchain & Smart Contract Engineer
I am a blockchain & smart contract engineer with 20+ years of software engineering experience and 5+ years building and shipping DeFi, Web3, and FinTech systems. As technical lead at Liquid Loans I have taken a full DeFi lending and stablecoin protocol to production - forking and extending Liquity V1, building a Tellor-based oracle with on-chain dispute resolution and multi-source feed failover, integrating Uniswap V3 and Aerodrome liquidity, and deploying across multiple EVM chains supported by a multi-reporter Telliot price feed infrastructure. I am hands-on across the stack and comfortable writing production Solidity, Typescript, Python, and Rust. I hold an MSc in Computer Science from The University of Manchester (2000) alongside a Blockchain Developer Nanodegree from Udacity (2020). I pair my blockchain engineering experience with modern AI tooling and LLM engineering skills: I can build agentic systems and use LLMs, RAG, and MCP as practical tools in my development workflow. At Liquid Loans I built AI systems that generate and run automated tests across various code bases, and I have also built a multi-agent system that reviews smart contract security and can reason over on-chain DeFi data to surface yield opportunities. I have held several senior leadership roles including CTO at a FinTech startup. I'm currently open to blockchain and smart contract engineering roles with DeFi protocols.
Experience: 7 years
Yearly salary: $200,000
Hourly rate: $150
Nationality: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Residency: 🇰🇠Cambodia
Experience
Smart Contract Developer (Solidity) & Backend Engineer
Liquid Loans 2022 - 2026
Smart contract developer, backend engineer and technical advisor for Liquid Loans, a DeFi lending and stablecoin protocol, spanning smart contract engineering, security review, infrastructure, and technical project management. Reviewed smart contract, backend, and frontend code, ran internal security reviews, and coordinated an external audit of the Liquid Loans monorepo smart contracts and oracle system with Halborn. Led the core protocol development based on a Liquity V1 fork to then extend and deploy across multiple EVM chains via Hardhat, with Tenderly fork based QA. Built a Tellor fork oracle with staking, reporting, and on-chain dispute resolution (auto-disputer bot), fronted by a modular oracle caller that fetches data via several off-chain and on-chain TWAP price feeds. Designed the LOAN token and USDL stablecoin economics (issuance schedules, stability-pool and LP reward emissions) and Merkle-proof airdrop and claim contracts. Designed a multi-reporter oracle infrastructure on a Kubernetes cluster on AWS, with RPC failover across multiple providers. Developed a Dockerized Python arbitrage bot to hold USDL on its US-dollar peg on Aerodrome (Base), and deployed a Uniswap V3 managed strategy with Gamma Strategies and Merkl tokenized rewards. Built on-chain data indexing with The Graph, later migrating to SubQuery Network and serving data via GraphQL APIs. Led architecture and infrastructure design, technical project management, and relationship-building with integrators and partners.
Smart Contract Developer (Solidity) & Blockchain Architect
Point Network 2021 - 2022
Co-authored the Point Network whitepaper. Built backend nodes and a suite of decentralized applications (social networking, email, content sharing) for a blockchain-based decentralized internet. Designed and implemented an encrypted email system on user wallets and the custom Point Network blockchain, working directly with cryptography. Prototyped a proof-of-concept on a custom Substrate-based chain during chain selection, gaining hands-on Substrate and Polkadot experience.
Trading Bot and Smart Contract Engineer
Ze.Fi 2020 - 2022
Built trading platforms and performed smart contract security audits for the Ze.Fi platform. Prototyped layer 2 scaling solutions and advised on NFT integration for Ze.Academy.
Blockchain Developer (Telegram TON, Node JS, Vue JS)
TigerBee 2019 - 2020
Deployed and configured a fork of the Telegram TON blockchain for a private investor group. Built WebAssembly extensions for a client Vue.js application. Connected a custom Telegram bot to a chat client for interacting with the private TON fork.
Bitcoin Exchange API Developer
Paxful 2019 - 2020
Designed and built a Python (Flask-RESTful) API integrating with a Bitcoin exchange to process trades for an international cash remittance service.
Chief Technology Officer
Clik 2018 - 2020
Built the technology department from the ground up, recruiting the engineering team and integrating with banking partners. Led technology strategy for fintech mobile payments and KYC blockchain products. Designed a prototype Ethereum blockchain layer to strengthen transaction security and accountability.
Skills
rust
solana
solidity
english