CTO at Blend, building non-custodial, multi-currency financial infrastructure that delivers local-currency experiences backed by deep onchain liquidity.
Previously Frontend Lead at Across Protocol and UMA, where I worked on intent-based systems, cross-chain interoperability, and high-reliability onchain money movement.
- CTO at Blend, leading protocol design, engineering execution, and security processes
- Helped ship and scale Across Protocol, contributing to systems that have facilitated $30B+ in cross-chain volume
- Worked on execution and reliability for intent-based routing used in production at scale
- Contributed to securing and operating the UMA Optimistic Oracle, the core truth layer powering applications such as Polymarket
- Focused on minimizing failure modes across UX, execution, and protocol design
- DeFi protocol design and implementation
- Intent-based systems and routing
- Cross-chain and interoperability infrastructure
- Stablecoins, FX, and onchain yield systems
- Risk-aware financial primitives
- Security-first production engineering
I combine a strong formal background in computer science and quantitative finance with hands-on experience shipping systems that operate under real economic load.
My work sits at the intersection of:
- Protocol engineering
- Quantitative finance
- Execution reliability
- User-facing financial infrastructure
- M.Sc. in Quantitative Finance
- M.Sc. in Computer Science
- B.Sc. in Computer Science and Economics
Always happy to connect or talk protocols, execution systems, and real-world DeFi.