wartech9

Technical Lead

Technical Lead with hands-on DeFi protocol experience, $15M+ in treasury management, and smart contract deployments across Ethereum L2s. 15+ years of engineering leadership across fintech, blockchain, mobile & AI.


Experience: 6 years

Yearly salary: $0

Hourly rate: $0

Nationality: 🇨🇦 Canada

Residency: 🇨🇦 Canada


Experience

Senior Mobile Developer
Kinetic Commerce / Wirkn Inc
2022 - 2024
Lead iOS developer on job search platform featuring video capture, playback, and social integrations. Technical point of contact across iOS and external Android teams, bridging architecture decisions between platforms.
iOS Developer → Sr. iOS Developer
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
2018 - 2022
Lead developer on CBC Hockey, CBC Music, and CBC News apps serving millions of users across Canada. Architected push notification service in Java EE handling 50M+ notifications monthly. Awarded President's Award for Innovation for contributions to the CBC Sports app.
Sr. iOS Engineer → Tech Lead
Clearbridge Mobile
2018 - 2020
Led dev teams of 10+ across iOS, Android, React Native, and backend, delivering enterprise mobile apps for NBC Sports, NY Yankees Network, and Bell Canada. Shipped native iOS and tvOS apps with complex auth, entitlements, and media streaming workflows. Authored technical architecture specs that served as the development blueprint across multiple concurrent projects. Established code review standards and mentored developers across experience levels.
Lead Blockchain Engineer
Tip Network Inc
2017 - 2018
Built Android crypto wallet app in Kotlin featuring secure transactions and encrypted key management. Architected username-to-crypto-address mapping system in web3.js and MongoDB. Wrote and deployed ERC-20 token and token sale contracts to Ethereum mainnet. Managed team of 8 including developers, designers, and product manager.
Senior iOS Engineer
Ruby Life Inc
2016 - 2019
Lead developer on mobile app serving 50M+ users, working across 50k+ lines of Swift and legacy Objective-C. Defined API specifications and contracts between mobile clients and backend services. Led code reviews and established coding standards across the mobile team.
Technical Lead
Chedda Technologies
2014 - 2016
Led product and engineering teams through requirements, technical specs, implementation, and CI/CD standardization for multi-environment deployments. Designed and built NFT-collateralized lending protocol using ERC-4626 tokenized vaults with borrowing mechanics, collateral management, and liquidation logic. Implemented account abstraction (EIP-4337, EIP-7702) for session keys and gas sponsorship. Built cross-chain swap tool with gas sponsorship via Relay protocol, then shipped as an MCP server giving AI agents cross-chain transfer capabilities.
Lead Smart Contract Engineer
UXD Finance
2010 - 2014
Ported algorithmic stablecoin backed by delta-neutral positions from Solana to EVM. Wrote and deployed smart contracts to Ethereum, Optimism, and Arbitrum, completing multiple audits. Integrated Curve Finance, Perpetual Protocol, Rage Trade, LayerZero into protocol architecture. Managed multisig treasury wallet, deploying $15M+ stablecoin across yield-earning DeFi protocols.

Skills

ai
ios
java
javascript
kotlin
node
postgres
python
smart-contract
typescript
solidity
english