Alberto Cañada
VP Onchain Security at Netherwall Ltd.
Mafra, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolAlberto Cañada is a VP of Onchain Security and seasoned blockchain engineer with eight years designing, auditing and hardening DeFi systems across startups and Layer 1/2 teams. He combines hands-on smart contract development (early contributions to OpenZeppelin’s AccessControl and Enumerable libraries and co-authoring ERC-4626) with operational security: threat modelling, AI-led incident runbooks, bounty program design and real-time on-chain monitoring. As a founder and technical lead at Yield Protocol he shipped multiple protocol versions, led governance execution, and built security pipelines that scaled to live production assets. At OP Labs and Veda he translated adversarial thinking into usable security practices for non-security teams, balancing safety with rapid shipping. He’s also a prolific educator and judge—publishing 20+ articles, mentoring builders via EthernautDAO and evaluating high-profile audits at Code4rena—so he excels at turning complex attack surfaces into teachable design patterns. Based in Lisbon, he favors pragmatic, tool-driven defenses (fuzzing, invariants, symbolic execution) that uncover subtle vault/accounting risks before they become crises.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PROMOE Scholarship, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, PROMOE Scholarship, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence at Tecnológico de MonterreyErasmus, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Erasmus, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence at Università degli Studi di GenovaUniversitat Politècnica de València
Spanish, English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (68)
contract10
security10
smart-contracts10
solidity10
openzeppelin10
uniswap10
yield10
package10
erc2010
truffle10
ethereum-contract10
evm10
ethereum10
blockchain10
devops10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
alcueca/EIPs
Dec 2020 - Jun 2022
The Ethereum Improvement Proposal repository
Contributions:83 pushes, 32 branches in 1 year 6 months
ethereum
yieldprotocol/yield-utils
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Generic contracts and libraries for use within Yield projects and beyond
Contributions:3 reviews, 38 commits, 12 PRs in 2 months
ethereumgenericsmart-contractscontractsbeyond
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