simonphd

Web3/Defi Prompt Engineer & Ai Specialist | Defi Native (Aave Power User 4+ Years) | Lead Generation & Outreach In Crypto/Ai Ecosystems

Web3/DeFi Prompt Engineer specializing in AI-driven analysis, protocol evaluation, and ethical prompt design for decentralized systems. Expert in crafting precise, context-rich prompts for LLMs to optimize DeFi insights, tokenomics breakdowns, smart contract explanations, and on-chain data interpretation. Aave power user since 2021 with hands-on management of over-collateralized positions; applied symbolic cognition and multimodal curation (audio-text alignment, red-teaming) to enhance AI accuracy in crypto contexts. Recent professional-level AI assessments (Micro1/Mercor) in content evaluation, fact-checking, and instruction following. UT Austin bootcamp 2023 grad. Remote-only; available for flexible contract work in Web3 AI prompting, ethics evaluation, crypto tech writing, or protocol support.




Experience: 1 year

Yearly salary: $120,000

Hourly rate: $65

Nationality: 🇺🇸 United States

Residency: 🇺🇸 United States


Experience

DeFi Specialist
Independent Investor
2020 - 2025
Managed over-collateralized Aave positions with technical analysis, applying info theory to evaluate protocols ethically for decentralized systems. Developed trade strategies through market research, focusing on structural critiques transferable to AI ethics/ideology annotation. Utilized apps (Aave, Uniswap, MetaMask, Ledger) for portfolio optimization, informing symbolic data curation in AI contexts.
Music Technologist
Simon Music Services
2011 - 2020
Delivered music education via in-person/online (Zoom), curating semiotics/aesthetics content—applied to AI audio-text alignment/emotion labeling. Used software/hardware (Pro Tools, Sibelius, Guitar Pro) for performance/research, informing multimodal data curation in symbolic systems. Provided consultation on musical structures, breaking down interpretations akin to AI prompt evaluation/red-teaming.
Professor
School of Information, University of South Florida
2006 - 2011
Taught graduate courses in info architecture/research methods, evaluating prompts like AI red-teaming for 100+ students. Curated datasets/resources for music info services, transferable to multimodal AI curation/cultural labeling. Integrated philosophy/musicology in teaching, fostering symbolic reasoning for ethics domains in frontier models.

Skills

ai
analyst
defi
ethereum
fintech
javascript
music
prompt
python
solidity
technical-writer
video
web3
english