Damilola Edwards
Offensive Security Engineer at Halborn
Lagos State, Nigeria
Summary
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Top SchoolDamilola Edwards is an Offensive Security Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in blockchain and smart contract security, currently working at Halborn after roles at Trail of Bits and as an independent researcher for Immunefi. He combines a chemical engineering background with hands-on backend and distributed infrastructure development, bringing rigorous analytical thinking to decentralized systems and financial primitives. Damilola has built and led developer education initiatives through Hack Code Camp and contributed practical smart contract and backend engineering at startups like Tipshot and Scale3C. Known for solving critical engineering problems under adversarial conditions, he pairs technical leadership with a pragmatic focus on exploit discovery and secure architecture. Based in Lagos, he blends startup-building instincts with formal security practice, often approaching protocol risk from both an attacker’s and engineer’s perspective.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Computer Programming Specific Applications, Associate's degree Computer Programming Specific Applications at School of Computational IntelligenceBachelor's degree Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Chemical Engineering at University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Github Skills (15)
static-analysis10
solidity10
vyper10
ethereum10
analyzer10
blockchain9
static-analyzer9
switch9
smart-contracts9
solc8
contract6
abstraction6
abstraction-layer6
compiler5
python1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tipshot-net/smart-contract
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:63 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
damilolaedwards/bsc
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:27 PRs, 26 pushes, 24 branches in 1 day
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