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Software engineer, DeFi researcher, DJ. Building things that work — and asking what it means when they start working on their own.

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Engineer + on-chain researcher. I diagnose hard systems fast, ship production prototypes solo, and adopt new tools the week I need them. Solana, Rust, ML, AI agents — research-driven, commercially executed.

Stack

  • SolanaRust · Anchor · Pinocchio · Helius RPC · Jito · Switchboard VRF · Token-2022 · SVM internals
  • Data + MLPython · Monte Carlo · scikit-learn · GMM / PCA · R
  • AI agentsRAG · prompt engineering · agentic automation pipelines · LLM integration
  • Web + analyticsTypeScript · Next.js · Supabase · Dune · Flipside · ClickHouse · SQL · BigQuery

How I work

  • Stay at the technical frontier. Solana SG Mini Hackathon winner 2026 · Colosseum 2026.
  • Diagnose fast under pressure. Etherisc: −76.86% bounce, +13.4% organic in a month using SEMrush + GTM I'd never touched before.
  • Ship full systems alone — prototype to live dashboard, end-to-end.
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DATA ARCHIVE

Research Dispatch

2025.03.18

How Robots Learn to Be Robots

Everything that moves will be autonomous. The continuous loop of simulation, training, testing, and real-world deployment — powered by NVIDIA Omniverse and Cosmos. Synthetic data at scale. Robot policies across embodied intelligence architectures.

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2026.05.17

The Order Book That Doesn't Break

The matching engine was the easy part. Capital efficiency vs. settlement guarantees, aggregator routing, MEV economics — three separate games deciding whether on-chain order books actually survive production.

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2026.05.20

The RPC Layer That Cut the Cord

Helius sells developer time. Triton One sells institutional edge. FluxRPC — the 2025 Breakout Infrastructure winner — sells the bet that the RPC node never needed to be a validator at all. Devnet vs mainnet, function cross-comparison, and where each one actually wins.

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2026.05.20

The CLI Was Always the Trading Floor

Two CLIs share a prompt and almost nothing else. The dev CLI moves files; the trader CLI moves money. Pyth Hermes is the generator, OKX is the sink, OpenClaw is the slow brain — wired through a 60-line thin CLI that does almost nothing itself.

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2026.05.20

The Wire — How Solana Actually Moves Bytes

Everything that happens between your getAccountInfo call and the bytes coming back. Slots, shreds, turbine, the leader schedule, RPC nodes, commitment levels, forks, ShredStream — and why every fast product on Solana is selling a way to skip a layer the documentation pretends is invisible.

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2026.05.21

The Darkest Trade — How CEX-DEX Arbitrage Actually Works

$233.8M extracted, 7.2M trades, 19 searchers — three of whom captured 75% of it. Inside the largest single MEV category on Ethereum and the quietest game on Solana: the two-flavor mechanism, the off-chain leg that makes it "dark", the Dune dashboard that finally measures it, and what Solana's 400ms slot changes.

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2026.05.23

The Pool That Wasn't a Pool

Ten closed-source prop AMMs do most of the quiet flow on Solana mainnet. Eight had public byte-level pool layouts; two were blank. Aquifier took 90 seconds and a public RPC — no API key. Humidifi turned out to be a price-tick registry, not a pool: the offsets don't exist because the mints aren't stored on chain at all.

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2026.05.24

Humidifi, Decoded

Part II of the prop AMM reversal. Part I said humidifi's mints don't live on chain. Part II goes back in to map what does. 3.3% of the 1728-byte account is live, spread across six narrow ranges, including two u16 price ticks and a monotonic e18 counter. The byte map is enough to build a real-time humidifi quote firehose without humidifi's cooperation.

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PERSPECTIVE

Woman in Tech

2026.02.15

Don't Be a Sheep — Be a Lion

You will be lonely, but you will never be alone. Decisiveness is not cruelty — it is extreme self-discipline. Stripping emotion from judgment at critical moments. Comfort is never neutral: it shrinks your tolerance, softens your edges, trains you to fear what is merely unfamiliar.

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2026.03.15

Misread — But She Can Become Anyone

Feminism is not a battle cry, not a manifesto against any system, not persuasion, not violence, not conformity. It is expression. It is the quiet, relentless work of making women's abilities visible — and making sure that visibility translates into real economic value. She can be an engineer. She can be everything. The point was never the slogan.

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2026.04.23

Every Woman in Tech Has a #MeToo Story

It always comes from someone you know. Harassment is not impulsive — it is a calculated assertion of power over someone who cannot easily push back. A research dispatch on recognizing the patterns: supervisory coercion, retaliation threats, bystander silence, and what to do when they come for your job.

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