Senior Protocol Engineer

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@mihailomaksa

Senior Protocol Engineer

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🌱 Member since September 2023

I'm a senior protocol engineer with 8 years in software engineering, 7 of them building Solidity and EVM systems in production, where mistakes are expensive and reliability is the whole job.

My work spans liquid restaking at $2B+ peak TVL, cross-chain deployments and DeFi integrations across 20+ chains, and RWA and tokenization systems. My contracts have been audited by Trail of Bits, ConsenSys Diligence, Sigma Prime, and Bailsec, alongside open audit competitions.

I lead Kelp's on-chain engineering team, and I have led protocol security response and recovery at the highest-stakes level. The lesson I carry from it is very specific: on anything that touches user funds, there is no such thing as "probably fine."

I run an AI-native workflow with a human gate on every funds-touching line: I build with one model, review with another, and scale autonomy in proportion to how reversible a mistake is.

My focus right now is on the infrastructure this cycle is converging toward: stablecoins and onchain payments, vault infrastructure, RWA and tokenization, and onchain credit, where protocol architecture and security are the core of the work.

Languages & Skills

🚀 In crypto since 2018
Accepts Crypto
Open to Full-time
Open to Part-time
Remote
Open to Relocation
Accepts Fiat

Work History

PeriodTitleCompany
August 2024 – PresentSenior Protocol EngineerHidden
December 2023 – August 2024Senior Solidity EngineerHidden
May 2023 – December 2023Senior Solidity EngineerHidden
June 2022 – May 2023Senior Solidity EngineerHidden
December 2020 – June 2022Solidity EngineerHidden
March 2019 – December 2020Solidity EngineerHidden
July 2018 – March 2019Full Stack EngineerHidden
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