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Past Work

View the projects and companies I've worked on in the past.

Experience

  1. Aug 2025Present

    Founding Engineer @ gondor.fi

    New York, NY

    Leverage & credit protocol for prediction markets ($25M valuation).

    • Shipped the first on-chain system for leveraged Polymarket exposure: a collateralization layer built on Morpho, paired with a dealer-backed mechanism delivering up to 3x leverage.
    • Built the protocol's entire MVP: core Solidity contracts, 10+ backend services, and the frontend integration.
    • Engineered the risk and liquidation stack: real-time LTV and position-health monitoring, plus a hedging engine that keeps solvency independent of block-confirmation latency.
    • Designed an oracle service streaming Polymarket CLOB prices on-chain, an automated allocator supplying real-time borrow liquidity, and a rebalancer that caps each asset by live orderbook depth.
  2. May 2025Aug 2025

    Software Engineer Intern @ Glider

    New York, NY

    DeFi protocol.

    • Designed a real-time metrics dashboard collating platform revenue, user count, and growth.
    • Developed a backtesting portal so business teams could project revenue against fee changes.
    • Created an API portal for integrators to manage their API usage, billing, and authorization.
  3. May 2024Apr 2025

    Trading & Development Intern @ Optimex Capital

    • Managed a liquid fund deploying capital into on-chain investments, netting $120,000 in profit.
    • Deployed automated strategies to maximize airdrop emissions, achieving 300% yield on invested capital.
    • Built an automated crypto arbitrage system on Base and Solana with sub-250ms execution.

Activities

  1. Sep 2023Present

    President & Head of Algorithmic Trading @ Illini Blockchain

  2. Nov 2023Aug 2024

    Secretary & Events Coordinator @ BuildIllinois

Education

  1. 2023May 2027

    B.S. Computer Science + Advertising

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Coursework: Algorithmic Market Microstructure, High-Frequency Trading Technology, Discrete & Data Structures, Computer Systems.