Liam Kovatch
Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolLiam Kovatch is a Staff Software Engineer based in Tucson with eight years of experience building high-performance systems in crypto and DeFi. He has a track record as a founder and early engineer—co-founding Paradigm Labs, serving as first engineer at Periscope Trading (0x Labs), and leading engineering at Polymarket—culminating in his current role at Coinbase after The Clearing Company was acquired. Liam specializes in market-making, non-custodial liquidity systems, and on-chain prediction market infrastructure, often shipping production trading systems and alpha models that reached profitability quickly. He combines hands-on implementation with product and strategy fluency, having helped raise institutional seed rounds and guided engineering through acquisition. An engineer with an academic engineering background from Columbia, he brings entrepreneurial grit and deep domain expertise in DeFi primitives and trading infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics (High School), Mathematics (High School) at Arizona State UniversityEngineering (Undergraduate), Engineering (Undergraduate) at Columbia University
Github Skills (54)
clob10
rainbow10
python-client10
optimistic9
erc7219
ethereum-wallet9
prediction8
erc208
python8
calculation8
exchange8
adapter8
pocket8
ethereum8
distributor8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Polymarket/relayer-deposits
Sep 2021 - Apr 2023
Deposits to polymarket through a custom relayer
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
depositsrelayer
Polymarket/polymarket-sdk
May 2022 - Feb 2025
SDK for interacting with the Polymarket Wallets
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 9 months
walletsethereumblockchainwalletconnectsdk
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