Drew Kerby
Smart Contract Engineer at Ironroot Labs LLC
Corinth, Mississippi, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Kerby is a Smart Contract Engineer with eight years of software experience building production-grade blockchain, web, and cloud systems. He designs and deploys gas-optimized, secure smart contracts across multiple EVM chains and has built DeFi protocols, on-chain game mechanics, and validator infrastructure at scale. Drew pairs full‑stack web expertise with cloud and DevOps skills—Terraform, Docker, and multi-cloud deployments—enabling repeatable, reliable pipelines and legacy modernization into well-structured APIs. He has a track record of performance and cost optimizations ranging from EVM opcode-level improvements to enterprise workflow efficiencies. Based in Corinth, Mississippi, he blends academic rigor (MS in Computer Science) with hands-on industry experience at startups and ExxonMobil, and he routinely advises teams on secure architecture across distributed organizations. An uncommon strength is delivering resilient offline-capable applications for high-intensity operational environments, reflecting a focus on real-world reliability as well as innovation.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Neuroscience, Bachelor of Science - BS, Neuroscience at Rhodes CollegeMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Mississippi State University
Github Skills (5)
archived5
java3
deprecated3
chain3
blockchain2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Dkerby/encode-solidity-bootcamp
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Dkerby/dkerby-io
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:11 pushes in 2 months
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