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Security-minded smart contract developer building market makers, staking systems and DeFi protocols with nine-figure TVL. I’ve uncovered 40+ high and medium-severity vulnerabilities across audit contests and private audits.
Tech stack
- Blockchain: Solidity, Rust, EVM, Foundry, Hardhat, Chainlink, Uniswap V3/V4, Curve, LayerZero
- Backend: TypeScript, Python, Java (Spring)
- Frontend: React, Next.js
- DevOps & observability: Docker, Azure DevOps CI/CD, Gradle, SonarQube, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki
- Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
- Other: Git, bash, Linux
Experience
Smart Contract Engineer · Stealthy Web3 product
Apr 2026 – Present
Tech: Solidity, Foundry, TS
- Designing, building and editing the core protocol contracts
Smart Contract Engineer · Protofire
Oct 2025 – Present · Remote
Tech: Solidity, Hardhat, TS, Foundry
- Designed and built an async RWA vault from scratch following EIP-7540
- Developed a Venus Protocol fork, extending core lending/borrowing mechanics
Blockchain Engineer & Lead Dev · Stealthy Web3 Venture Studio
Feb 2025 – Dec 2025 · Full-time · Remote
Tech: Solidity, Foundry, TS, React, Rust, Python, Docker
- Integrated Uniswap V2/V3 and Curve DEX protocols, optimizing liquidity provisioning
- Wrote fuzz tests for all functionality, identifying and resolving 15+ security issues before audit
- Engineered Chainlink integrations (Data Feeds, Data Streams, custom and log-based automation triggers), improving data reliability
- Designed contracts that interact with chain precompiles to stake tokens and mint NFTs
Solidity Developer · Zaros
Jul 2024 – Feb 2025 · Full-time · Remote
Tech: Solidity, Foundry
- Took part in building a market making engine from scratch
- Designed and implemented the core business logic of an ERC4626-compliant wrapper, enabling staking, unstaking, redeeming and withdrawals
Smart Contract Auditor & Audit Lead · CDSecurity (Freelance) · Code4rena
Jan 2024 – Sep 2025 · Freelance · Remote
- Conducted 10+ security audits for EVM-based protocols including DeFi, NFT marketplaces, staking platforms and DeFi games
Software Engineer (DevOps and Automation) · Fadata
May 2022 – Dec 2023 · Sofia · Hybrid
Tech: Azure DevOps CI/CD, ACR, Docker, bash, SonarQube, Aikido, Java, Groovy, Gradle, ADF, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki
- Took part in a major product transformation from a monolith to a microservice architecture
- Built automation tools for release processes, compliance scans and escrow operations, improving operational efficiency by 30% (measured in time)
- Developed a Gradle plugin that extracts build logic shared between projects
- Created and maintained Azure pipelines, and containerized a project
- Configured quality assurance tools such as SonarQube and WhiteSource for code analysis and security scanning
- Implemented an escrow collection and testing pipeline from scratch
- Researched and implemented OpenTelemetry tracing in a containerized Payara server and reactive Spring applications
- Created a Spring Boot observability starter that loads telemetry config automatically once applied to a project
- Wrote and ran automated tests to ensure product reliability
Software Engineer (Data Mining & NLP) · Bizportal
Sep 2020 – Apr 2022 · Full-time · Sofia · Hybrid
Tech: Python (Django), Docker, Linux, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
- Designed and built a web crawler from scratch that processed 1,200 requests per hour across 250 proxies and saved SERP data
- Developed other web crawlers for different projects, along with their analysis and delivery automation
- Took part in building a full-stack web application that collects, analyzes and aggregates data from 20+ feeds, with a UI for users
- Created automation pipelines, and deployed and maintained existing projects
Education
Blockchain Education · Lime Academy
2023 · Top Performer Graduate
Alpha Java Track · Telerik Academy Bootcamp
2019 – 2020
Bachelor of Business Information Technology · Plovdiv University
2015 – 2019