Architected, wrote, and securely deployed an audited smart contract on the Solana blockchain, written in Rust. This smart contract allows users to lock their NFTs in their wallets, keeps track of how long each NFT has been locked and protects users from wallet draining phishing attacks and scams by requiring NFTs to be unlocked before being transferred

Led the creation of the company's NFT collections on the Solana blockchain, including the architecture and development of multiple custom tools that enabled quick, effective interaction with the Solana blockchain

Architected and deployed cloud infrastructure for corporate and product websites on Azure, complete with realtime metrics monitoring and demand-based autoscaling

Engineered user-profile management systems utilized by over 30,000 users in C#

Created a Node.js reverse proxy and authentication token management system for our backend microservices

Designed and implemented Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for user-profile management systems and reverse proxy

Researched and investigated common scams and security issues in the cryptocurrency industry, publishing research on Medium to spread awareness

Discovered a core vulnerability in Solana Pay's protocol

Wrote a proof-of-concept exploit and responsibly disclosed the core vulnerability, resulting in CVE-2022-35917 being published in NIST's National Vulnerability Database

Investigated the Slope Wallet hack on Solana in realtime by demonstrating the vulnerability and providing other researchers with explicit reproduction steps of the vulnerability

Built and published a Google Chrome Extension to assist customers with identifying legitimate Irreverent Labs properties

Performed in-depth analysis of emergent phishing threats, including campaigns linked to the SolarWinds attack and potential state-sponsored industrial espionage

Designed and implemented a C# library that performs static content analysis of malicious websites without requiring separate virtualized environments

Built a high-fidelity proof-of-concept service using C#, ASP.NET, TypeScript, React, and Next.js that creates a live graph of a phishing website’s network infrastructure with DNS queries, SSL certificate logs, and static content analysis

Designed an automatic false positive resolution workflow for when our system’s artificial intelligence (AI) fails to determine the maliciousness of a website

Assisted with the development of cost-cutting measures to decrease our team’s cloud costs

Led initiative to improve documentation techniques across the team

Troubleshooted and diagnosed issues with file load and save features in Microsoft Word’s C++ codebase for Windows and Objective C / C++ codebase for macOS

Lead the rollout of multiple features, performing big data analysis on application telemetry to ensure new features were functioning as expected

Contributed multiple features to a now open-source Electron application that assists Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) with organizing and performing data queries while on-call

Mentored interns during their summer experience and achieved a 100% full-time return rate