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unorthod0xd

Security engineering · Protocol development

Understanding how protocols break, before they break.

I'm a security engineer and computer science student working in the Ethereum ecosystem. I deepen security engineering by building what I study — full-stack DeFi protocols, Chainlink CRE oracle workflows, and upstream open source contributions, all grounded in EVM internals.

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What I build

Three threads that keep converging: protocol architecture, the security lens that comes from taking systems apart, and the quantitative side that treats the same mechanics as an edge.

My path into crypto started in 2018, when Ethereum clicked as something more than digital money. Curiosity turned into a focus on security — understanding how protocols break before they break — and that focus is now extending into quantitative development: systematic strategies grounded in protocol knowledge rather than price action.

The overlap is where the work gets interesting. MEV, liquidation mechanics, oracle manipulation, arbitrage. The same reading that identifies a vulnerability identifies an edge. I'm currently balancing university coursework with independent study, and shipping what I learn as I go.

Mastering Ethereum

In Progress

Execution-layer internals from the ground up — accounts, transactions, gas, block structure — turned into working code chapter by chapter, starting with ETH Analyzer in Rust.

EVMEthereumRust

Computer Science Foundation

University

Data structures, algorithms, discrete mathematics and systems programming. The theory I was working around before, done properly.

AlgorithmsData StructuresSystems

Cyfrin Updraft Security

Paused

Smart contract auditing, vulnerability classes and review methodology. Paused in January 2026 to strengthen EVM fundamentals first — the findings were easier to read than to derive.

SolidityFoundrySecurity

Trading Systems

Ongoing

MQL5 expert advisors and systematic strategy development. The discipline that connects protocol mechanics to the quantitative side.

MQL5TradingAutomation
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All projects

Selected work

Protocols, tooling and upstream contributions. Each one started as something I wanted to understand properly.

2026
Personal

Parametrix

Trustless parametric insurance on Chainlink CRE

Weather-indexed insurance protocol. Policyholders buy cover against a measurable threshold; a Chainlink CRE workflow verifies the observation off-chain and settles severity-proportional payouts from an ERC-4626 vault, with no claims adjuster in the loop.

SolidityChainlinkTypeScriptDeFi
Source for Parametrix
2026
Open Source

Javy Contribution

Upstream fix merged into Bytecode Alliance's Javy

Javy is the JavaScript-to-WebAssembly toolchain behind Chainlink CRE. Panicking unwraps in its plugin-api surfaced as unreadable build failures mid-hackathon; the fix replaces them with descriptive errors so the next person sees the cause rather than a stack trace.

RustWebAssemblyOpen Source
Source for Javy Contribution
2026
Personal

ETH Analyzer

Rust CLI for execution-layer inspection

Built chapter by chapter alongside Mastering Ethereum. Queries address balances, inspects blocks, and decomposes transactions with per-opcode gas accounting — the fastest way I found to make account and gas semantics stick.

RustEthereumCLI
Source for ETH Analyzer
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Capabilities

Grouped by what the work is for rather than by language.

Protocol

Designing and shipping on-chain systems

SolidityFoundryHardhatEVMERC-4626DeFi
Security

Finding how a system breaks before it does

Smart contract auditingVulnerability researchFuzzingFormal verificationMEVOracle manipulation
Languages

Where the implementation actually happens

SolidityRustTypeScriptPythonMQL5
Infrastructure

Build, test and ship

Chainlink CREGitLinuxDockerNext.jsReact
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Full story

Trajectory

Eight years, mostly learning in public.

  1. 2026

    Architecture First

    Built Parametrix at Chainlink Convergence, my third Chainlink hackathon. Top ten overall and 2nd place in the CTF at Intellibus. First upstream open source fix merged into Bytecode Alliance's Javy.

  2. 2025

    Building in Public

    Redid the Cyfrin course with Git tracking. Built Emerald DAO at my second Chainlink hackathon and competed at Intellibus. Launched this site to document my journey.

  3. 2024

    First Hackathon & University

    Competed in first Chainlink hackathon, met brilliant minds from Singapore and India. Started Cyfrin Updraft course. Returned to university.

  4. 2023

    Database Admin & Deep Dives

    Remote DB admin role at a startup. Joined Chainlink and ZKsync communities, diving deep into their tech stacks.

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Writing

Hackathon post-mortems, technical notes, and the occasional reckoning with what isn't working.

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Contact

Open to security roles, audit collaborations, and conversations about protocol development.

If you have a question, a protocol you want a second pair of eyes on, or just want to connect — reach out. I read everything.

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