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Led a small, cross-functional team, working closely with C-Suite members, visual designers, marketing, and logistics to translate complex business demands into scalable, technical solutions. Took ownership of the backend architecture, ensuring alignment with business goals, while mentoring and guiding several junior engineers to achieve high-quality output. Played a senior role in driving the continuous evolution of the system, overseeing modifications to the architecture, infrastructure, and deployment processes to ensure they met the company’s changing needs. Provided ongoing technical leadership, conducting regular one-on-ones and team meetings to troubleshoot issues, offer guidance, and ensure seamless collaboration across the team. Acted as the go-to technical expert within the team, contributing to critical decision-making and offering strategic direction in a fast-paced, resource-constrained environment.

Led QA efforts independently after the first year, ensuring security, reliability, and scalability of smart contracts across multiple blockchain networks. Developed comprehensive test suites, achieving 100% coverage of critical smart contract logic through unit, stateful, and fuzzing tests, proactively mitigating protocol risks and potential exploits. Independently managed QA and deployment requirements for third-party integrations with major DeFi protocols (e.g., Aave, Lido, Convex), ensuring seamless smart contract compatibility and optimizing cross-platform liquidity provisioning. Spearheaded cross-chain deployments, engineering bridging solutions for L1-L2 integrations, enhancing transaction efficiency and interoperability. Regularly interacted with deployed contracts through on-chain transactions to verify functionality, troubleshoot issues, and implement necessary upgrades or parameter adjustments in collaboration with the community and protocol users. Contributed to the growth and security of Curve Finance as it scaled to nearly $25 billion in Total Value Locked (TVL), ensuring protocol integrity through rigorous testing, audits, and proactive contract maintenance.