Experience.

Director & Engineer

Arcana Games Limited

Entertainment company expanding in several directions, from Turtle Island, a retail brand and hobby store for trading card games, video games, board games, comics, manga, toys, and collectibles, to Oni Rocket, a game development studio. Wear all the hats, from business planning, management, and accounting to e-commerce platforms and payment rails, and coded the entire website and infrastructure. Two teammates look after areas like distribution, transport, and customer support.

Software Engineer

Helius

Co-lead on Orb Explorer; created the frontend/app repository from scratch and drove it from early-stage development through to release (3,000+ commits). Built backend route endpoints and transaction-parsing services, conducted extensive code review, and saw through a successful product launch. Represented Helius at events and gave technical talks.

Co-founder / Engineer

Arcana Markets

Duo with Michael Morrell (former Blizzard, OpenSerum) building DeFi tooling on Solana. Won the OpenBook DEX hackathon and received a grant; placed 2nd in DEX tooling at the OPOS (Only Possible On Solana) Hackathon; honorable mentions at Solana Hyperdrive. Received a Pyth Foundation grant for tooling work. Built one of the user-facing trading bots on Solana and on-chain data dashboards monitoring OpenBook, Phoenix, and other markets. Anticipated public launch of token vaults and was in investor discussions before pausing to join Helius.

Open Source Contributor

OpenBook

Made contributions to the OpenBook TypeScript SDK. Built a web app for the OpenBook community (openbook.ag). Received a small grant for work done.

Frontend Engineer

SolApe DEX

On-chain CLOB DEX on Solana offering trading services, built on open-source software. Experimented with margin trading. Focused exclusively on frontend maintenance, component design, and feature improvements.