About Me
Hi, I'm Alexander, but most folks know me as partylikeits1983 online.
I'm a full-stack blockchain fintech-focused software engineer and researcher with over 5 years of industry experience. I'm an expert in implementing and designing low-level algorithms for financial applications, and I'm passionate about cryptography, privacy, open-source software, web3 security, and financial math.
I am deeply interested in DeFi and as a result built Central Limit Order Books (CLOBs) for EVM, FuelVM, and MidenVM as well as well as an Options Dex for the EVM. Currently, I work as a protocol engineer at Miden. I am an adamant supporter of privacy technology and believe in the importance of financial privacy and user sovereignty.
As a Blockchain Engineer, ZKP Researcher, Rust Engineer, and Web3 Security Researcher, I've conducted audits for various DeFi protocols and at Linum Labs and previously worked at Polygon. I particularly enjoy working on finance-related blockchain projects, and as a result, I've received grants from Arbitrum, Aave, 1inch, and Sablier. For my whitehat hacking efforts, I've received bug bounty payouts from Immunefi.
We won 1st and 2nd place at ETHGlobal NYC Hackathon 2023 for UniHedge, a protocol for hedging impermanent loss on Uniswap V3, and 2nd place at ETHGlobal Bangkok Hackathon 2024 for Tornado Cash 2.0, where I created an improved version of Tornado Cash.