Crypto / HFT
In developmentORACLE Protocol
Institutional-grade prediction markets on Hyperliquid HIP-4
Hyperliquid HIP-4NestJSSolidityGraphQLWebSocketRedis+2
2025–2026Read more
Available for senior crypto + AI agent roles · open to relocation
Builds AI agents & on-chain HFT systems.
Dubai, UAECTO @ Kokomo Games10+ years
Currently
Building VisaPilot · applying to a16z Speedrun SR007
About
Earned secret: most agent products fail because their authors don't understand the workflow.
- Solidity
- Rust
- Go
- TypeScript
- Python
- Next.js
- React
- Hyperliquid HIP-4
- Solana
- ZK Proofs
- Three.js
- Postgres
- Redis
- Anthropic SDK
- GraphQL
- WebSocket
- Docker
- AWS
- Vercel
- Kafka
- NestJS
- Drizzle
- TensorFlow
- BFT Consensus
I'm a senior engineer who builds both halves of the stack — the cryptographic, high-frequency, sub-millisecond infrastructure underneath, and the AI-agent products on top. Ten years across crypto, gaming, and AI; CTO at Kokomo Games today.
Currently building AI agents for verticals where the workflow is gnarly enough that incumbents charge $20k for what should cost $2k — immigration, dental ops, building permits, B2B sales — alongside a prediction-market protocol on Hyperliquid HIP-4 for institutional traders.
The earned secret: most agent products fail because their authors don't understand the underlying workflow. I spend the first two weeks of every product shadowing the human expert it's replacing — paralegal, dental front desk, permit expediter — before any code gets written.
- Currently
- CTO @ Kokomo Games
- Based in
- Dubai, UAE
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Education
- Boston University — MCA + BS Computer Engineering
- Languages
- Swahili (native)English (native)French (professional)Turkish (professional)
- Relocation
- Open to remote · SF / NYC relocation
Selected highlights
01 · Crypto / HFT
Sub-100ms execution on Hyperliquid HIP-4
ORACLE Protocol — first prediction market built natively on Hyperliquid's HFT infrastructure. Zero gas, native CLOB, perp composability.
02 · AI Agents
Four production agents shipped in 14 days
VisaPilot, DentalVoice, PermitPal, Chord — every one with a partner-firm review queue, Drizzle schema, and live demo.
03 · Open Source
5,735 downloads across published packages
p2p-net-oura · libp2p-mdns-ouro · @tigthor/kokocrypt — post-quantum crypto, P2P networking, in production.
Selected work
13 projects across crypto, AI agents, and games.
Each one shipped (or shipping). Click any card for a deep-dive on architecture, why-it-matters, and the live demo.
Experience
Ten years across crypto, AI, and infra.
A through-line: build the deep technical substrate, then ship the product on top of it.
- Jan 2024 — Present
Chief Technology Officer
·Kokomo Games·Dubai, UAE- Lead all engineering for a hyper-casual games studio — innovative core loops, unconventional mechanics, tight controls, scalable backends.
- Author production encryption (@tigthor/kokocrypt — hybrid Kyber + Dilithium + AES-256-GCM) used across the company's auth and Kafka layers.
- Architect AI-agent products in regulated verticals (immigration, dental ops, construction permits, B2B sales).
- Apr 2023 — Feb 2024
Blockchain Architect
·Velera — First Decentralized Internet·USA- Built Ouranos — a dual-DAG ledger solving decentralization, security, and scalability simultaneously.
- Introduced Proof of Compartments and Layers (PoCL) — novel consensus for sub-second finality.
- Designed quantum-resistant cryptographic systems anchored to the protocol's identity + settlement layers.
- Jan 2020 — Mar 2023
Engineering Lead
·Ignite Tournaments·Remote- Built the MVP that raised $3M in seed funding.
- Led the play-to-earn esports platform to 150M+ transactions, 99.99% uptime, 35% faster transaction throughput.
- Sep 2019 — Apr 2022
Solana Protocol Engineer
·InnoApps Technologies·Remote- Developed NFT marketplace smart contracts and full backend integrations on Solana.
- Authored Solana BPF programs with deterministic execution paths + zero-allocation hot loops.
- Feb 2017 — Jun 2020
Blockchain Architect
·DVSTLLC (with Aleph0)·Boston, MA- Delivered DeFi, DEX, and DApp infrastructures with 20% efficiency and 30% speed gains.
- Oversaw production systems processing 160M+ transactions at 99.98% uptime.
- Jan 2016 — Oct 2016
Software Engineer
·Google·Cambridge, MA- Developed decentralized systems for privacy, autonomy, and data security in Google Experimental Projects.
- Jan 2015 — Nov 2015
Software Engineer Intern
·Google·Cambridge, MA- Contributed to system performance, stability, and feature enhancements across flagship Google products.
- Mar 2013 — Jan 2015
Junior Project Engineer
·Basis Technologies·Boston, MA- Managed automation projects end-to-end, increasing client satisfaction by 25%.
Stack
The toolkit.
Comfortable across the stack — from low-level Rust execution paths to React 19 and Three.js.
Languages
- Solidity
- Rust
- Go
- TypeScript
- Ruby
- Python
- C / C++
Blockchain
- EVM (custom opcode patches)
- Substrate FRAME pallets
- Solana BPF
- Hyperliquid HIP-4
- ZK rollups
- IBC token channels
- XCMP routers
- Gossipsub relayers
- Cross-chain bridges
Cryptography
- Plonky2
- Plookup
- KZG
- BLS12-381 FFTs
- FROST threshold ECDSA
- SPDZ triples
- GPU-accelerated TFHE
- Halo2 / PLONK / Groth16
- Formal verification (KEVM · Coq · Z3)
AI / ML
- Anthropic Claude SDK
- Tool-use agents
- DeepSpeed ZeRO-Offload
- NCCL / NVLink
- Megatron-LM
- Fused Triton kernels
- XLA HLO
- GPTQ + LoRA
- RAG · embeddings · vector retrieval
- Mech-interp
Game systems
- GGPO rollback lockstep
- LZ4 delta compression
- Unity DOTS / Burst SIMD
- GPU-driven Boids
- Photon Quantum
Frontend
- Next.js 15
- React 19
- Tailwind v4
- Three.js / R3F
- Motion / GSAP
- Paper Shaders
Infra & DevOps
- containerd
- gVisor
- Cilium eBPF
- Bazel
- Argo
- Prometheus
- Grafana Tempo
- Nix flakes
- Foundry
- Hardhat
- Postgres · Redis · Kafka
- Docker · AWS / Vercel
Writing
Notes from the workshop.
Long-form deep-dives on what I'm learning. Subscribe via X or RSS once I publish.
Coming soon
Why the next wave of agent products will be vertical-deep
Notes on shadowing dental front desks, paralegals, and permit expediters before any code gets written.
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Hyperliquid HIP-4 as the substrate for prediction markets
A walk through ORACLE's lazy-settlement model and why it collapses gas costs ~100x.
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Building a sub-millisecond Solana sniper without leaking PnL
Geyser plugins, co-located bundle submission, and how to know which validators leak.
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Contact
Hiring, building, or just want to talk?
Best way to reach me is email. I read every message and reply within 24h.