nik

About

I'm a software engineer focused on 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.

These days I'm at Ether.fi, working on the smart contracts behind Cash.

Previously, I worked in engineering at Katana, on smart contracts at Opyn, as a founding engineer at cryptoisreal and marketcap.guide, and as a software engineer at Jumpcut.

Always looking for the next problem worth solving. Let's build something people actually want.