Experience

Ten years across engineering, financial infrastructure and technical leadership.

Roles, scope and what shipped.

04Experience

Roles, scope and what shipped.

  • Developer relations, solutions engineering and integration delivery for Moca Network's AIR Kit — the identity, fintech and loyalty SDK for platforms.

    • Bridge enterprise client requirements with engineering execution by aligning roadmap priorities and sprint delivery.
    • Developer relations — own the developer-facing documentation for the SDK: integration guides, quickstarts, code samples and API reference across the account, credential, wallet and recovery surfaces. Shortened partner time-to-first-integration and cut repeat support load.
    • Solutions engineering — partner with business development through the deal cycle: technical discovery, feasibility assessment, architecture proposals, live demos and proof-of-concept builds that turn partner requirements into concrete integration designs.
    • Integration engineering — work directly with partner engineering teams from kickoff through launch: scoping the right path (account-only, credential-only or full-stack), reviewing implementations, debugging against the SDK and unblocking production releases.
    • Introduce AI-based initiatives to improve developer experience and enterprise workflows.
    • Partner with engineering teams to refine SDK design, user journeys and product mental models.
  • Continuing advisory on architecture, security and technical direction after handing over as Head of Technology.

    • Founding engineer on a crypto-backed card, semi-custodial wallets, a token economy and a luxury concierge operation. I owned the stack end to end: architecture, backend, mobile, contracts, infrastructure and security.

      • Built a production-grade backend API in NestJS and PostgreSQL: JWT authentication with 2FA, device fingerprinting, biometric integration, Sumsub KYC, card issuance, Expo push notifications and email services, with comprehensive rate limiting and security controls.
      • Developed the native mobile application: real-time multi-asset crypto and fiat wallet management, digital card operations (freeze/unfreeze, top-up, withdrawal), KYC with live document verification, passkey authentication and deep linking — deployed to the iOS and Android app stores.
      • Wrote the Solidity contracts — ERC-20, multi-stage presale with EIP-712 signatures, Chainlink ETH/USD feeds, two-sided referrals and staking — hardened for third-party audit with slippage and MEV protection, stablecoin depeg circuit breakers and exact-accounting refunds. Presale dashboard in Next.js with Wagmi/Viem and SIWE.
      • Implemented the concierge request lifecycle across mobile, API and three admin interfaces: dynamic form builders, status workflows, agent assignment, invoicing, broadcasts, invitation codes and RBAC.
      • Led a platform-wide security remediation closing cross-user card and transaction access paths — refresh-token rotation with device tracking, token-version revocation, constant-time comparison, encryption at rest, HMAC webhook verification, pessimistic locking, CSP and geo-based regulatory blocking.
    • A non-custodial blockchain escrow platform for B2B businesses — replacing blind trust and traditional intermediaries with smart contracts, mutual approvals and on-chain transparency.

      • Architected a multi-chain non-custodial escrow system across EVM chains and TRON, using a factory pattern for proxy deployment.
      • Built escrow contracts with reentrancy protection, SafeERC20 handling for stablecoins, multi-signature release flows and inactivity-based fund release.
      • Engineered payment infrastructure with cryptographic signature verification for wallet linking, real-time blockchain event monitoring and PostgreSQL/Prisma state synchronisation.
      • Secures high-value business transactions across industries and borders.
    • A platform for discovering Web3 projects and utilities.

      • Building and designing Web3 Wiki, a comprehensive platform for discovering Web3 projects and utilities.
      • Developed a custom CMS to manage content efficiently and ensure seamless user experiences.
      • Built on Next.js, TypeScript and Zustand with scalability and performance in mind.
      • Partnership hunting and collaborations that expanded the platform's ecosystem.
    • Global payments, international IBAN accounts and seamless fiat/crypto switching, architected from scratch for 200 countries.

      • Architected both backend and frontend systems for a platform offering global payments, international IBAN accounts and seamless currency switching between fiat and cryptocurrencies.
      • Collaborated on a unique NFT-enabled luxury card combining digital assets with physical payments.
      • Focused on global scalability and performance to support millions of transactions across 200 countries.
      • Led the design and development of the platform from scratch, focusing on luxury debit cards and crypto-fiat integration.
    • The world's first self-custodial bank — stablecoin-first financial tools with passkey authentication and no seed phrase.

      • Led development of a self-custodial bank enabling global access to stablecoin-first financial tools through a mobile-first approach.
      • Architected backend and frontend systems, integrating Account Abstraction, Turnkey, the Alchemy SDK and other blockchain technologies.
      • Implemented core MVP features: custodial and self-custodial transfers, stablecoin rewards, and passkey authentication tied to mobile OS accounts.
      • Integrated AAVE so users earn rewards on deposited USDC, with cron-driven automation for scheduled processes.
      • Delivered an abstracted crypto experience that removed complexity for end users while keeping global access to payments intact.
    • Refactoring leadership and user-facing feature work across a Web3 product.

      • Led a refactoring initiative, providing guidance and implementing solutions that improved codebase quality and maintainability.
      • Provided technical leadership, resolving complex issues and driving the team toward effective problem-solving.
      • Developed new user-facing features and authored technical documentation, PRDs and user journeys.
      • Worked across Next.js, Nest.js, React, Redux, TypeScript, Styled Components, Zustand, the Alchemy SDK and crypto APIs.
    • Technical leadership and feature delivery on a Web3 platform.

      • Led a refactoring initiative that improved codebase quality and maintainability.
      • Resolved complex technical issues and drove problem-solving strategy across the team.
      • Developed new user-facing features; wrote technical documentation, PRDs and user journeys.
    • A digital fashion platform letting brands, creators and institutions digitise, showcase and commercialise fashion archives.

      • Led development and architecture of the platform, front end and back end.
      • Built a CMS so internal teams could create and publish without engineering.
      • Integrated 3D fashion models with React Three Fiber, Three.js and Google Model Viewer — interactive hotspots, HDRs and environment configuration.
      • Created a tool for the design team to optimise and compress 3D models for use in the web app.
      • Implemented 3mint, enabling email-based Web3 accounts and gasless minting.
      • Collaborations included ESMOD x ALTR.
    • End-to-end Web3 and NFT product delivery for clients, plus team mentoring.

      • Developed NFT and crypto products and platforms, and delivered end-to-end engineering solutions for clients.
      • Pioneered an NFT marketplace.
      • Provided enterprise-level technical leadership across operations and business development.
      • Mentored engineers on general engineering, Web3, Solidity and front-end development.
      • Researched industry trends and emerging technologies to improve technology standards across the organisation.
    • Performant, scalable features for Bynder and VNTANA — including real-time 3D on the web.

      • Built and supported features with React.js, Node.js/Express, HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, Three.js, Google Model Viewer, Redux and Bootstrap.
      • Analysed design complexity, planned workload and communicated risk.
      • Participated in the full lifecycle: development, code review, testing and production deployment.
      • Ensured the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and worked closely with stakeholders, PMs and researchers.
    • Freelance front-end delivery for agency and brand clients.

      • Clients included DMS Marketing Agency, Degustation and Artuyt.
    • Front-end engineering on the main web editor at consumer scale.

      • Developed functional, performant and scalable web applications in React.js and TypeScript, focused on the user experience of the main web editor.
      • Wrote extendable, reusable code and protected application integrity and performance with unit and integration tests.
      • Worked with Adobe scripts to handle SVG integrations, including asset variations and font customisations.
    • Standards-compliant, cross-browser web applications for a large betting and gaming platform.

      • Developed, tested and debugged standards-compliant, cross-browser web applications.
      • Enhanced existing applications with new features and user-experience improvements.
      • Diagnosed and troubleshot problems in production applications.
      • Worked with designers, developers, QA, copywriters and product owners to establish requirements and scope.
      • Helped estimate work efforts for user stories, including requirements, dependencies and risks.
      • Supported technical decisions and development estimates, researched and built proofs of concept, and advised on technical and architectural issues.
    • End-to-end feature ownership on SPAs and REST APIs.

      • Prepared task estimation and user-story decomposition; participated in backlog refinement, planning and demos.
      • Owned new functionality end to end, delivering to clean-code and TDD principles.
      • Built production-ready systems and components — front-end applications, SPAs and REST APIs.

    Education

    • Bachelor of Advertising and PRRussian-Armenian (Slavonic) University · 2019

    Languages

    Armenian · English · Russian

    Location

    UAE, Armenia, Hong Kong SAR

    Contact

    Tell me what you're building — and what's blocking it.

    If the problem sits somewhere between financial infrastructure, product and engineering, there's a good chance I can help.

    Open to

    • Architecture Sprint
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    • Fractional Fintech Lead
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    UAE, Armenia, Hong Kong SAR

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