Michael Spain
Co-Founder at Lyra
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Spain is a blockchain-focused engineer and two-time co-founder with a decade of experience building and testing smart contract systems. Based in Greater Sydney, he blends academic rigor—he completed a First Class Honours thesis on performance-constrained blockchains—with hands-on contributions to high-profile DeFi codebases like Synthetix, where he strengthened ERC20FeeToken correctness through extensive testing. He’s been an early engineer at BLOCK8 and Synthetix and now leads product and technical direction at Lyra, applying systems thinking to protocol design and risk reduction. Comfortable bridging research and production, he pairs finance training from a Commerce degree with deep Solidity and backend testing expertise to ship auditable, resilient contracts.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyHigh School, High School at Knox Grammar School
English
Github Skills (6)
erc2010
smart-contracts10
solidity10
ethereum10
blockchain10
testing10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Synthetixio/synthetix
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Synthetix Solidity smart contracts
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 commits, 13 PRs, 74 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions primarily focused on testing and refining the functionality of the ERC20FeeToken smart contract within the Synthetix repository. They added test cases for various functions, including transfers, approvals, and fee withdrawals, to improve the robustness of the contract. The user implemented new test cases and made code changes to improve the functionality of the ERC20FeeToken and the ERC20Token contracts. These modifications suggest a focus on verifying the security and correctness of the smart contract's operations.
synthetixethereumblockchainsoliditysmart-contracts
simplaio/simpla-link
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:8 pushes in 2 months
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