Summary
Martin Petrov is a co-founder and blockchain security specialist with 8 years of engineering experience, focused on smart contract audits and security consultations through Shieldify. He combines deep Solidity expertise and modern tooling like Foundry, Hardhat, and ethers.js with hands-on experience building production web and mobile apps using React, React Native, and Node.js. Martin’s background includes end-to-end responsibilities—architecture, DevOps, testing, deployment, and monitoring—which gives him a pragmatic perspective on reducing security risk while keeping systems cost-efficient and user-friendly. At Shieldify he and his team have audited and developed for top-100 blockchain projects, bringing both offensive and defensive insights to protocol design. Previously he led mobile architecture and QA efforts as the first engineer on a greenfield app, also mentoring junior colleagues. Based in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, he blends startup grit with a developer-first approach to hardening web3 infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at New Bulgarian University
English, German, Bulgarian