Chad Lynch
Smart Contracts Lead at Loreum
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Lynch is a Smart Contracts Lead and versatile blockchain engineer with 11+ years building secure, scalable Web3 and DeFi systems across protocol, product, and security roles. He blends hands-on Solidity and TypeScript development with incident response and security architecture, having led crypto security at Horangi and driven technical strategy at Maple and YieldNest. At Loreum he’s exploring privacy-forward blockchain primitives for AI, and his open-source work includes improving Bitfinex integration in the widely used Gekko trading bot—illustrating practical exchange and trading-system expertise. Comfortable from low-level protocol design to front-end UX and devops, he repeatedly ships audited, production-grade systems for custodial and non-custodial environments. Based in Old Toronto, he’s interested in the intersection of AI, distributed intelligence, and decentralized governance, and brings a rare mix of offensive/defensive security experience to protocol engineering.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree BA, Bachelor's degree BA at Trent UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Open Source Society University
Github Skills (7)
exchange10
bitcoin10
nodejs10
javascript10
api10
bitcoins10
trading-bot10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
askmike/gekko
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
A bitcoin trading bot written in node - https://gekko.wizb.it/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 17 PRs, 35 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Chad primarily focused on enhancing the Bitfinex exchange integration within the Gekko trading bot. Their work involved updating the Bitfinex node module, increasing the limit of trades fetched, and implementing callback mechanisms for ticker updates. They also made adjustments to the portfolio retrieval and order placement functionality within the Bitfinex module. This indicates a focus on improving the bot's interaction with the Bitfinex API for data retrieval and trading execution.
market-makerexchangetrading-botbottrading
xhad/ang-wallet
Jun 2017 - Jul 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 3 months
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