Co-founder and CTO. Building a permissionless stablecoin protocol that combines on-chain overcollateralization, yield-generating collateral strategies, and privacy-preserving compliance infrastructure.

• Currently sole developer on the technical side: protocol, pool, compliance layer, and developer docs. Also driving strategy and marketing across upd.io, permissionless-technologies.com, and the preview.upd.io showcase app that ties every component together. Architecture is designed to scale to a real engineering team without rewriting.
• Designing the full protocol stack: stablecoin issuance, collateral management, and a compliance-aware dual SNARK-and-STARK privacy layer.
• Building a production-direction post-quantum STARK verification path for Ethereum L1, with BLS12-381 SNARKs on the hot path for real 128-bit security and STARKs as the post-quantum vault layer. STARK proofs verify through SP1 wrapping today, with a clean upgrade path to native STARK verification when Ethereum supports it.
• Managing the audit process: auditor procurement, scope review, feedback loops, remediation, and follow-up iterations.
• Currently pre-launch on Sepolia. Pre-audit.
• Stack: Solidity, Foundry, OpenZeppelin, SP1, Circom, TypeScript, Next.js.

Lead engineering for a blockchain-based trading platform. ~681k accounts, 50-100k monthly actives, 2,000+ synthetic markets spanning equities, commodities, crypto, forex, indices, and a set of unique custom markets.

• Scaled engineering from 3 unstructured devs to 7 across 2 product teams (desktop and mobile). Senior ICs were promoted into team-lead roles, not replaced by outside hires.
• Owned development budget planning for AWS, tooling, audit work, and hiring expansion. Engineering usually ran at or under budget while preserving room for planned infrastructure and headcount growth.
• Owned technical roadmap facilitation with product, marketing, support, compliance, and engineering. We scored upcoming work by impact, difficulty, urgency, and effort so high-impact quick wins rose to the top and costly low-value items became visible before they consumed months of engineering time.
• Managed security and product audits: auditor procurement, offer review, scope definition, feedback loops, remediation, and follow-up iterations.
• Prepared monthly investor-facing product and technology updates covering roadmap progress, feature delivery, bugs, infrastructure, improvements, and engineering risk.
• Architected the Morpher Wallet. It is an encrypted, double-salted keystore that acts as an RPC-intercepting signer. The wallet itself only signs; the RPC sits outside the wallet, so it is chain-agnostic by design. ~681k wallets created. Works with any EVM chain.
• Designed and operated a custom Plasma L2 with in-house validators and 1-second block times, well before today's L2 ecosystem (Arbitrum, Optimism, Base) reached production maturity.
• Built a high-frequency tick-data pipeline that aggregates 8 sources at 1-2k msg/s average and 10k peak. 100% retention via S3 and Athena, with <500ms latency end to end.
• Migrated production smart contracts to upgradeable proxies. Coordinated multi-chain settlement across the in-house plasma chain, Polygon, and Base, with several hundred thousand on-chain transactions processed.
• Led incident response twice. An AWS datacenter fire forced a redesign of redundancy and failover automation. A supply-chain attack against a dependency tightened release verification and signature procedures. Both became lasting improvements.
• Stack: Node.js, AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Solidity, Foundry, Truffle, OpenZeppelin, Vue, Jira, Notion.

Led technical strategy and delivery for a portfolio of blockchain and fintech client projects.

• Built and ran a senior engineering team across multiple concurrent client engagements.
• Ran the same hiring loop I later refined at Morpher. Zero voluntary attrition on engineering hires.
• Owned roadmap facilitation, architecture, delivery, budget-aware resourcing, and client-facing technical decisions end to end.

Built an accounting SaaS and a warehouse tracking solution from prototype to production, plus the bespoke cloud hosting infrastructure that ran them.

• Stack: PHP, MySQL, Galera Cluster, Linux, Java, Android

Telematics is about modeling, planning, implementing, operating and assessing complex hard- and software systems. Similar to Computer Science, but also covers the underlying electrotechnical layer. Specialization in Machine Learning and Signal Processing. Master's Thesis Project completed at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth, focusing on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.