Liam
From United Kingdom (UTC+1)
Liam – Solana, Smart contracts, web3.js
Liam is a middle-to-senior blockchain engineer specializing in Solana protocol integrations and Rust backend systems, with over two years of professional DeFi experience. He demonstrates strong command of Solana concepts, trading APIs, and security practices, though his Anchor framework fluency is less current. Liam communicates complex technical topics clearly, collaborates directly with clients and founders, and has informal team mentorship experience.
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Back-end Lead
A mobile trading app on Solana for perpetual futures and prediction markets, built for retail traders rather than professionals.
- Built the Phoenix perpetuals integration from scratch against undocumented on-chain instruction formats.
- Designed a trait-abstracted provider interface unifying Jupiter, Flash Trade, GMTrade, and Drift behind one contract.
- Shipped prediction markets onto the existing execution stack by integrating Jupiter Predictions and Polymarket.
- Wrote a multi-lane transaction submission crate over Jito, Helius, Triton, and Nozomi with validated tip policies.
- Built Tokio market-data ingestion from Pyth, Phoenix, and Chainlink, normalized into one event stream with failover.
- Integrated Privy server wallets with admin co-signing, onboarding 3,000+ users into self-custodial wallets.
- Implemented funds-safety controls including idempotent mutations, SQL write fences, and on-chain withdrawal sweeps.
Solana Protocol Engineer
A fast Solana price-prediction game: bet on cells ahead of a live SOL/USD line moving across a multiplier grid, with instant rounds, streaks, leaderboards, and a Solana Mobile paid tier.
- Wrote the on-chain program in Rust with Anchor.
- Built the API backend in NestJS.
- Developed the Solana integrations in the frontend — wallet connection, transaction construction, and account decoding with the Solana Kit.
- Integrated Privy for wallet onboarding.
Solana Protocol Engineer
A 24-hour Solana competition market: players stake on a token, communities rally and shill their side, and the token with the biggest gain claims the opposing pool. Players pick a battle date, stake before gates close, and claim winnings afterward.
- Built the on-chain program in Rust with Anchor.
- Developed the Solana integrations connecting the Next.js and React client to the program using web3.js.
- Worked across the Node.js backend service behind the app.
Rust Back-end Engineer
A Solana trading aggregator that consolidates perpetual, spot and margin liquidity across venues, routes orders to minimise slippage and fees, and surfaces market data and analytics across those venues.
- Built perpetual-DEX indexing services in Rust with Axum and Tokio.
- Consumed live on-chain order flow over gRPC and streamed it into ClickHouse for analytics and backtesting.
- Produced the trade-level record from which the platform's fee-rebate mechanism was calculated.