Thoughts of a Naive Optimist
Purpose of this blog
This blog is my canvas to explore my interests. Particularly - Ethereum’s capacity to enable practical, human-centric systems as well as to distill my thoughts and learnings about technology, decentralization, economics, and self.
About me
I'm a seasoned Ethereum developer with deep ecosystem expertise, contributing since its early days as a hobbyist (circa 2016) and professionally since 2018. My career began at MyEtherWallet during its pivotal growth phase, later transitioning with the founding team to MyCrypto, where I honed my skills in backend infrastructure. In early 2022, our team was acquired by Consensys to strengthen MetaMask—Ethereum’s most widely used wallet—where I architected mission-critical systems powering over tens of millions of monthly active users.
My work at MetaMask primarily spans core user-facing infrastructure components:
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Token metadata curation & asset pricing APIs
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Anti-phishing detection engines and transaction security tooling
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Scalable infrastructure for user asset balances, transaction history, and other on-chain data-based features.
My current interests lie towards decentralization, privacy, economics and blockchain-based gaming (currently, the game I am interested in is EVE Frontier which straddles the MUD Framework for building autonomous worlds by Lattice.xyz)