The road so far
The rabbit hole
Started farming airdrops with Google Forms and running nodes before most people had a MetaMask. In parallel, taught myself to break things — reverse engineering, web exploitation, deobfuscating JS and Android apps, scraping at scale. Two rabbit holes, one curious kid.
College dropout → smart contract dev
Three-quarters through technical college, Ewin Games offered me a junior dev spot building smart contract systems for their blockchain games on EVM. Didn't think twice. Turns out shipping code you can't patch teaches you a lot about security.
Going pro
Joined Hexens as a security researcher and spent a year auditing tier-1 protocols — 10+ highs, 20+ mediums. Competed on Code4rena, Cantina, and Sherlock. Did the zkEVM and Solana bootcamps. Placed top 2 in Wonderland CTF, solved challenges in BlazCTF and zkHack, and wrote one for Remedy CTF that got 1300+ submissions.
Now
Independent researcher specializing in DeFi, cross-chain systems, and L1/L2 infra — combining on-chain data analysis with manual code review across EVM and Solana. Also building an LLM-powered autonomous bug hunter that doesn't care what language your code is in.