Liam – Solana, Smart contracts, web3.js, experts in Lemon.io

Liam

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Blockchain Engineer|Middle-to-senior

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.

11 years of commercial experience in
Blockchain
Fintech
Gaming software
Main technologies
Solana
3 years
Smart contracts
2.5 years
web3.js
2 years
Anchor
3 years
Additional skills
Typescript
Rust
JavaScript
C++
Java
gRPC
Docker
WebSocket
PostgreSQL
Redis
ClickHouse
Node.js
Java Reactive
Next.js
React
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Possible
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Experience Highlights

Back-end Lead
Oct 2025 - Jul 20268 months
Project Overview

A mobile trading app on Solana for perpetual futures and prediction markets, built for retail traders rather than professionals.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
Rust
Solana
Anchor
PostgreSQL
Redis
gRPC
WebSocket
Smart contracts
Docker
Solana Protocol Engineer
Dec 2024 - May 20261 year 4 months
Project Overview

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.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
Rust
Anchor
Solana
Smart contracts
Typescript
Node.js
Solana Protocol Engineer
Jun 2024 - Nov 20251 year 5 months
Project Overview

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.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
Rust
Anchor
Solana
Smart contracts
web3.js
Next.js
Node.js
Typescript
React
Rust Back-end Engineer
Aug 2025 - Oct 20252 months
Project Overview

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.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
Rust
Solana
ClickHouse
gRPC

Education

2015
Electronics and Computer Engineering
MEng

Languages

English
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