Founding Engineer · Solidity Smart Contracts

Founding Engineer & Architect: Web3, RWA & AI

Background

Three years as a founding engineer, shipping production financial infrastructure — the foundation for where I'm focused now: Real World Assets, secure financial systems, and AI-native enterprise software.

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Founding Protocol Engineer

· Velvet.Capital

2022 – 2025

First technical hire at a startup. Set the architecture, engineering standards and security culture from a blank repo through 4 audited mainnet releases.

Software Development Intern & Thesis

· msg systems Research

2020 – 2021

Fresh out of university: my thesis was the planning work, then I joined as a working student for development, on a team with experienced leads and seniors — involved end-to-end early in my career.

B.Sc. Information Systems

· Technical University of Munich (TUM)

2016 – 2020

Bachelor's thesis on OSS license compliance evaluation, carried into the msg systems role above.

$7M+

TVL secured in production

EVM chains shipped to

Audit cycles led

90%+

Test coverage, core contracts

Working stack

SolidityEVMEthereumBaseArbitrumBNB ChainHardhatFoundryTypeScriptFastAPIReactPostgreSQLGeminiClaudeOpenAI

Four disciplines, one architectural mindset.

Web3 taught me to build financial infrastructure where mistakes are irreversible and audited by strangers. That's the discipline behind everything below — backend systems, production smart contracts, and Real World Assets, where I want to take that experience next.

Financial Systems & RWA

Tokenization, treasury custody and fee accounting from 3.5 years in production DeFi, plus extensive independent research into Real World Assets — Velvet's index-token architecture (proportional ownership as tradeable tokens) maps directly onto how RWA tokenization works.

Backend Engineering

Python and TypeScript backend systems — FastAPI, Express, PostgreSQL, multi-tenant architecture, RBAC, audit trails. My core day-to-day craft, and the discipline behind every project on this site.

Smart Contracts & Web3

Solidity, EVM, UUPS proxies, Chainlink oracles — 3.5 years shipping production contracts across four chains, nine audit cycles, $7M+ TVL secured.

AI-Native Building

I use AI to learn new stacks fast — this whole site, start to finish. Deep AI-infra judgment (model selection, cost at scale) is a growth area, but the interface-first architecture and verification discipline from Web3 transfer directly.