Kevin Small is a Staff Solidity Engineer and hands-on architect with 12 years of software experience and eight years focused on production DeFi and smart contract systems. He designs secure tokenomics, vaults, pricing oracles and cross-chain settlement, having led blockchain architecture for tokenized debt, delivery-versus-payment flows and staking/emissions across Ethereum, L2s and app-chains. Comfortable in both EVM-level engineering and enterprise systems design, he combines rigorous SDLC practices with practical tooling (Foundry, Hardhat, TypeScript, Fireblocks, Tenderly) and has deployed contracts securing tens of millions in TVL. His background in enterprise solution architecture and applied AI gives him an edge in modeling complex financial processes and operational robustness. Outside core protocol work he publishes technical writing and builds open-source blockchain visualization tools, reflecting a habit of turning deep systems thinking into accessible outputs.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Master’s Degree, Applied Artificial Intelligence at University of Aberdeen
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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Kevin Small - Staff Solidity Engineer at XMTP Labs