Kumar Nilay
Smart Contract And Quant Lead at YieldFi
Bihar, India
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Top SchoolKumar Nilay is a Smart Contract and Quant Lead with 10 years of experience bridging quantitative finance, machine learning, and blockchain engineering. Currently leading smart contract development and on-chain yield strategies at YieldFi, he previously audited EVM and Solana contracts and built governance, vesting, and NFT systems for DAOs. His background includes migrating risk models at JPMorgan and research roles at the Vector Institute focused on generative models for therapeutic molecules, reflecting a unique blend of finance-grade modeling and ML research. Hands-on skills span secure access-control patterns, arbitrage bots, and semi-supervised VAEs—demonstrating an ability to move ideas from research to production-grade systems. Based in Bihar, India, he combines rigorous academic training from IIT Kharagpur with practical experience across DeFi, institutional quant teams, and computer vision projects. Colleagues describe him as a problem-driven engineer who thrives at the intersection of security, finance, and AI.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
10 CGPA in 10th Boards, 88.6% in 12th Boards., 10 CGPA in 10th Boards, 88.6% in 12th Boards. at DPS PatnaMaster of Science in Chemistry, Chemistry, Master of Science in Chemistry, Chemistry at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Hindi
Github Skills (24)
monorepo9
venom-blockchain7
everscale7
loss6
blockchain6
virtual-machine6
evaluation6
depth5
prediction5
ton5
python5
residual-networks4
rust4
similarity3
chainer2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Nilay27/crypto_baskets
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:35 commits, 10 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 month
Nilay27/bio-venom-sdk
Jun 2023 - Oct 2023
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Contributions:1 review, 14 PRs, 64 pushes in 3 months
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