Mikhail Wall
Protocol Engineer at Primev
Belgrade, Central Serbia
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Top SchoolMikhail Wall is a senior blockchain and backend engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems across L2 scaling, MEV, and DeFi. He’s shipped core infrastructure for Polygon zkEVM—designing the sequencer, aggregator, and tx pool from scratch—and led protocol work at Primev on a P2P MEV pre-confirmation network and encrypted bidding to prevent frontrunning. At Infrared he built resilient on-chain keepers, a Safe multisig client, RPC failover, and OTEL-backed market surveillance for a top liquid staking protocol, demonstrating end-to-end product-to-protocol ownership. Previously he drove DEX execution and gasless intent settlement for a $5B+ hybrid trading platform and ran an enterprise blockchain handling up to 10M tx/day for Russian Railways. Comfortable in Go, Solidity and Rust, he pairs cryptographic prototyping (ZK commitments, sigma protocols) with pragmatic infra engineering. Based in Belgrade, he’s also an active OSS contributor to Polygon’s zkevm-node and exchange integration tooling, blending protocol research with production-grade code.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Saint Petersburg State University
English, German, Русский
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Github Skills (11)
cryptocurrency10
javas10
state-management10
go10
back-end-development10
java10
blockchain10
ethereum9
api9
apim9
database-management8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
0xPolygonHermez/zkevm-node
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Go implementation of a node that operates the Polygon zkEVM Network
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 reviews, 88 commits, 49 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Mikhail primarily contributed to the implementation of core interfaces and foundational components for the Polygon zkEVM node. Their work involved adding interfaces for the aggregator and sequencer components, including defining the structures and initial logic for these key processes. The commits also included the implementation of the state management functions, indicating a focus on building the backend infrastructure of the node and its interaction with the pool for transaction management. They added initial support for the Ethereum transaction manager, which indicates an interest in interaction with the L1.
golangblockchainpolygon
knowm/XChange
Apr 2017 - Jul 2018
XChange is a Java library providing a streamlined API for interacting with 60+ Bitcoin and Altcoin exchanges providing a consistent interface for trading and accessing market data.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:75 commits, 11 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Mikhail primarily created Data Transfer Object (DTO) classes for market data and trade-related functionality within the `knowm/xchange` repository, which provides a Java library for interacting with cryptocurrency exchanges. This work involved defining classes with properties representing various market data points like prices, volumes, and timestamps, and trade history details, for the DSX exchange. The user's commits demonstrate the user's focus on creating data structures to represent and handle market data from a specific exchange (DSX), indicating a back-end development focus on integration with the exchange's API. These classes are likely integral to the exchange's data processing.
apiexchangejava-librarykucoinexchanges
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