Gage Bachik
Staff Solana Systems Engineer at Franklin Templeton
Murrieta, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGage Bachik is a Staff Solana Systems Engineer with 12 years of experience building institutional-grade, low-latency trading and tokenization infrastructure. He currently architects dYdX’s spot Solana trading platform and designed Franklin Templeton’s on-chain RWA smart contract system, delivering transaction pipelines that consistently land within 0–3 blocks on commodity hardware. Previously leading Solana engineering at OpenSea, he shipped pioneering NFT experiences and has a track record of reverse-engineering byte-level programs and squeezing latency from seconds to sub-500ms across bespoke trading stacks. Skilled in Rust, Anchor, TypeScript and oracle/DEX design, he blends deep protocol-level expertise with practical production engineering for DePIN, RWA tokenization, and exchange systems. Based in Murrieta, CA, he pairs selective high-impact consulting with mentorship roles, and is known for shipping auditable, high-throughput systems used by both crypto-native projects and major traditional asset managers.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaFocused on learning the business side of starting a company., Focused on learning the business side of starting a company. at Santa Barbara City CollegeHigh School, High School at Vista Murrieta High School
Github Skills (127)
anchor10
oscillator10
solana10
ledger9
chain9
wallet9
music9
webview9
python9
firebase9
cryptocurrency9
token-list9
audio-visualizer9
metaplex9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gbachik/soldfy
Feb 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:41 commits in 4 months
GageBachik/gagebachik
May 2021 - Aug 2023
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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