Past Work

Founding Engineer @ gondor.fi

New York, NY

Leverage & credit protocol for prediction markets (pre-seed, $25M valuation).

• Architected a leverage and credit protocol for prediction markets (Polymarket, Kalshi), delivering 10+ backend services spanning pricing, market management, order routing, and dealer share-fronting, plus the core Solidity contracts.
• Built the risk, liquidation, LTV-monitoring, and oracle-management systems, running 10+ microservices on Google Cloud Platform.
• Owned the security infrastructure end-to-end: code auditing, HSM/KMS integration, auth platforms, and multi-signature cryptographic verification.

Software Engineer Intern @ Glider

New York, NY

DeFi protocol.

• Built a real-time metrics dashboard for 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.

Trading & Development Intern @ Optimex Capital

• Built and tested AI-driven on-chain automation to maximize airdrop emissions, achieving 300% yield on invested capital.
• Managed a liquid fund deploying capital into on-chain investments: research, allocation, and due diligence.
• Wrote an arbitrage agent and contracts in Rust and Solidity for token launches and liquidity provision, cutting execution time from 1s to 0.001s.

B.S. Computer Science + Advertising

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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