I'm a staff software engineer at Katana, working to make it the liquidity hotbed of DeFi.
First heard about crypto in 2017 during the ICO craze when Ethereum was just gaining traction. Didn't really get it then. But something clicked when I discovered Andreas Antonopoulos' videos, suddenly Bitcoin made sense. Read the whitepaper, went down the rabbit hole, started understanding Ethereum. The tech was fascinating, but I wasn't ready to jump in yet.
2021 changed everything. Got serious about crypto and started building. First came marketcap.guide, a crypto ticker that hit 5K daily users. Then dove into Solana, writing NFT programs for cryptoisreal. These weren't just side projects, they were my entry into understanding how decentralized systems actually work.
Joining Opyn was when I truly found my calling. Got to dive deep into Ethereum DeFi, building derivatives systems that handled $530M+ in volume. Finance plus tech, when these two worlds collide, magic happens. Built novel perpetuals that let you create any financial payoff. Shipped entire UI redesigns in a week. This is what I was meant to do.
Here's what drives me: most of crypto is built for other builders, not real users. Complex UIs, confusing products, solutions looking for problems. I'm here to change that. Whether it's making perps accessible or turning DeFi into something your friend would actually use, I build for humans first.
Right now, I'm exploring everything in DeFi, studying protocols, understanding different approaches, talking to builders. Always curious about how we can make this space better. 8+ years shipping products, deep expertise in perpetuals, options, and AMMs. But what really matters is the mission: making crypto simple, useful, and built for everyone.
Always looking for the next problem worth solving. Let's build something people actually want.