Summary
Jake Mathai is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building distributed systems, high-performance trading infrastructure, and blockchain-native applications. He has driven DeFi quant research and multi-chain trading platforms that span EVM, non-EVM, and Cosmos ecosystems, and has hands-on experience modifying blockchain node source code to accelerate ledger access. Jake combines quantitative trading instincts with systems engineering—implementing low-latency clients, custom smart contracts for execution and risk management, and large-scale batch and real-time financial data pipelines. His background includes full-stack cloud-native work for fixed-income analytics and early-career technical architecture experience, giving him breadth across front-end, back-end, and infrastructure. Currently at Monad Foundation, he brings a pragmatic blend of research-driven trading strategy development and production-grade engineering. Notably, he often bridges protocol-level changes with application logic to squeeze extra performance out of trading stacks.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Mathematics & Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Mathematics & Computer Science at Santa Clara University
Spanish, English