Security researcher at 33Labs and founder of Hodl and LendBit. Five years of software engineering, two deep in DeFi protocol design and Ethereum security research — 9 valid contest findings (4 high severity) across Sherlock and Code4rena.
Experience
Blockchain Security Researcher — 33Labs
May 2026 → Now- ▸Audit client contracts at a Uniswap Foundation whitelisted firm — manual review, fuzzing, and static analysis across DeFi protocols and Uniswap v4 hooks.
- ▸Write PoC exploits for every reported finding and audit-ready reports with severity justification and remediation guidance.
Founder — Hodl
2025 → Now- ▸Built and launched a global money app across six EVM chains: virtual USD accounts, instant naira payouts, gasless swaps, and crypto-collateralized credit.
- ▸122 users and $120K+ transaction volume in the first two months live, $220K+ to date — own product, smart-contract architecture, and security posture end to end.
Founder · Lead Protocol Developer — LendBit
Oct 2024 → 2025- ▸Designed and shipped a cross-chain P2P lending protocol to mainnet beta — gas-optimized Solidity, protocol invariants, risk parameters, and emergency mechanisms.
- ▸Three-time hackathon winner (Base Batches 1, Quicknode Build On, Base Around the World); led protocol development and produced audit-ready documentation.
Mobile Developer — Baines Credit
Mar 2024 → Feb 2025- ▸Led development of a production financial mobile app end to end on a scalable React Native architecture.
- ▸Integrated secure APIs for authentication, transactions, and user data.
Blockchain Developer Intern — Web3Bridge
Jan 2024 → Jun 2024- ▸Built DeFi contracts in Solidity with Hardhat and Foundry; Cairo and Rust for non-EVM ecosystems.
- ▸Wrote zero-knowledge proof circuits in Circom and Noir.
Fullstack Developer — PwC
Jul 2022 → Sep 2022- ▸Built scalable web services and UIs with React, C#, SQL, and Azure.
- ▸Improved overall website performance 40% through code optimization, caching, and CDN usage.
Lead Developer — Kapitify
Jun 2021 → Jun 2022- ▸Shipped production smart contracts in Solidity across multiple client projects.
- ▸Mentored two engineers; established coding, testing, and documentation standards for four projects.
Backend Developer — Crustfrost
Feb 2021 → Jun 2021- ▸Built Node.js services and REST APIs with MongoDB and clean architecture.
- ▸Integrated PayStack, Flutterwave, and Google Maps payment and location services.
Security research
- ▸9 valid findings — 4 high, 5 medium — across Sherlock and Code4rena; best contest finish #15, 4× top-50. Published reports: Swafe (7,100-line Rust codebase), GTE Perps & Launchpad.
- ▸Security Research Fellow, Guild Audit Academy — Yul re-implementations, proxy and metamorphic patterns, fuzzing. CTFs complete: Damn Vulnerable DeFi, Ethernaut, EVM Puzzles.
- ▸Authored an EIP proposal under discussion on Ethereum Magicians; published security writeups including the Grizzifi honeypot post-mortem.
Selected projects
- ▸Eidolon — Multi-tenant virtual testnet engine in Rust (revm): fork any EVM chain, simulate transactions, diff state; 40+ RPC methods.
- ▸BlockSploit — AI agent that autonomously finds and exploits smart-contract vulnerabilities (in development).
- ▸Open source: OZ Ethernaut (Compiled and deployed the challenges on Polygon Amoy); Scroll SDK (Implemented seamless bridging of ERC20 tokens from L1 (Ethereum) to L2 (Scroll)); Compose (Implemented the ERC721 Burn Enumerable standard for Perfect-Abstractions' EIP-2535 Diamonds library).
Awards
- ★Winner, Base Batches 1 — LendBit · 2025
- ★Winner, Quicknode Build On — LendBit · 2024
- ★Winner, Base Around the World — LendBit · 2024
- ★Pyth Prize, EthGlobal SuperHack — CrossFlow · 2024
- ★Special Award, Lisk Blockchange Africa — PeerLend · 2024
- ★Honourable Mention, Scaling Web3 — Badger · 2024
Education
B.Eng, Computer Engineering·University of Benin (UNIBEN), Nigeria
Skills
TypeScript / JavaScript · Python · C# · Solidity · Rust · Huff / Yul — Forge / Anvil / Cast, Hardhat, ethers.js, React, Node.js, MEV Boost, Slither, Echidna, Foundry Fuzz, Medusa, Aderyn, Tenderly, Forta, The Graph, GitHub Actions, K8s / Docker, AWS.