Nazar Duchak is a Co-Founder and CTO with 10 years of full-stack and blockchain engineering experience, currently splitting time between a stealth startup and protocol work at MakerDAO. He has deep hands-on expertise integrating and expanding DeFi liquidity tooling—contributions to ParaSwap’s SDK and DexLib include multiple DEX adapters and 0x integration across V2–V4, plus WAVAX support. His background spans smart-contract platforms (RSK, æternity) and FinTech/gambling systems, giving him a pragmatic blend of backend, on-chain, and product-focused engineering. Based in Lviv, Ukraine, he pairs entrepreneurial leadership with active open-source collaboration, often tackling adapter/refactor work that improves composability across DeFi ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Lviv Polytechnic National University
Velora allows dApps and traders to get the best DEX liquidity by aggregating multiple markets and offering the best rates
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:12 reviews, 44 commits, 22 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nazar primarily focused on developing adapters for various decentralized exchanges (DEXs) within the ParaSwap SDK. Their contributions involved integrating new DEXs like OneBit, 1inchLP, mStable, MDEX, Wault Finance, Shibaswap, and BProtocol, indicating a focus on expanding the platform's liquidity aggregation capabilities. These adapters involved writing code to interact with the DEX's smart contracts, manage data flow, and implement swap functionalities, demonstrating a deep understanding of blockchain interactions. They also worked on refactoring parts of the code.
DexLib is a library used by ParaSwap backend to integrate with decentralized exchanges. This library enables external DEX developers to integrate their DEX with ParaSwap by creating pull requests to this repository.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 72 commits, 20 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nazar primarily worked on integrating the 0x decentralized exchange (DEX) library into the ParaSwap DEX library. Their commits involved adding ABI (Application Binary Interface) files for various 0x versions, including V2, V3, and V4. They refactored the 0x adapter, adjusted encoding, and added helper classes. Furthermore, they added support for WAVAX and other DEXs.
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