Building Intelligent Systems at the Edge of AI and Markets

Fullstack engineer with 6+ years building trading and market infrastructure, from backend and frontend to the infra it runs on. Currently at Ostium, core engineer on the autonomous risk and hedging engine behind a decentralized perpetuals exchange with $50B+ cumulative volume: multi-venue LP execution (FIX 4.4, gRPC), smart order routing, and the AWS/EKS platform. Sole author of seven papers on liquidation, funding-rate, and oracle mechanisms. Also an angel investor supporting early stage startups.

what i do

how i work

  • + building autonomous hedging and risk systems that trade real money with no human in the loop
  • + multi-venue lp connectivity: fix 4.4, grpc, smart order routing, position reconciliation
  • + platform engineering: multi-account aws org, eks, ci-gated terraform deploys, secrets/kms architecture, stage-to-prod promotion with auto-rollback
  • + ai-native engineering: codifying incident triage, pr review, and deploy runbooks into agent-executable skills
  • + publishing research on liquidation, funding-rate, and oracle mechanisms
  • + angel investing in early stage startups, founders feel free to reach out

tech stack

  • + languages: go, python, typescript, rust, solidity, sql
  • + trading & connectivity: fix 4.4, grpc, websockets, market-data pipelines, smart order routing
  • + frontend: react, next.js, react native
  • + infrastructure: aws, kubernetes (eks), terraform, docker, github actions, prometheus/grafana
  • + data: postgresql, redis, kafka
  • + ai/llm: langgraph, langchain, langsmith, rag, vector stores, agentic workflows
  • + blockchain: evm (solidity), starknet (cairo), zk-snark/stark, chainlink oracles

experience

  • ostium· senior backend engineer
    jan 2026 – present
  • subconscious ai· founding ai engineer
    aug 2025 – jan 2026
  • hustle fund· angel squad member
    oct 2024 – present
  • starkware· exploration engineer
    sep 2024 – apr 2025
  • sizzle· advisor
    apr 2024 – aug 2025
  • nethermind· researcher
    may 2024 – aug 2024
  • hifi bridge· software engineer
    sep 2023 – feb 2024
  • block convey· technical lead
    jun 2023 – aug 2023
  • great lakes institute of management· visiting faculty - blockchain
    mar 2022 – jul 2022
  • opx ai· blockchain lead
    jun 2021 – jul 2022
  • vyom labs· data scientist
    jan 2020 – mar 2021

astra

2025

scalable runtime for autonomous agents with dynamic task orchestration, stateful memory, and low-latency event routing using langgraph, crewai, and fastapi.

langgraph, crewai, fastapi, vllm

instantresearch ai

2023

ai-driven research tool integrating llms for accurate q&a. winner (1st place, cohere track) at hackgpt 2023, cornell tech.

llm, research, hackathon winner

yield pool watcher

2024

multi-chain agent for defi tracking apy/tvl across 16 networks. winner of $1000 usdc bounty.

defi, x402, multi-chain, agent

ic3 blockchain camp project

2023

runner-up at ic3 blockchain camp 2023 (cornell tech). developed scalable defi application using smart contracts with privacy-preserving transactions using zk-rollups.

defi, zk-rollups, smart contracts