Tom Wade
Technical Director at Digital Rift
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Wade is a Technical Director and web3 engineer with 11 years of software experience, now leading Solidity protocol development and gas-optimised smart contract work for high-value DeFi treasuries and daily transaction flows. He bridges traditional web stacks (PHP, Laravel, WordPress) with decentralized systems, having led agency delivery, client UX, and secure production sites before pivoting to blockchain. Based in Leeds, he runs Digital Rift to help brands enter web3 and has been a Solidity protocol lead and "merkle magician" with recognition as a 2x ETHGlobal finalist. Tom combines hands-on contract auditing and optimisation with product-facing experience for esports and creative brands, and he’s an active speaker and community starter—co-founding National Coding Week activity in Leeds.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Roundhay Sixth FormBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 2:1, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 2:1 at Lancaster University
English, French
Github Skills (25)
solidity10
contract10
staking10
ethereum10
nft10
hardhat10
steam-web9
authenticator9
blockchain9
steam8
gift8
steambot8
api-blueprint8
nodejs8
steam-api8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NFTX-project/nftx-protocol-v2
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
The new and improved NFTX v2 Protocol.
Contributions:15 reviews, 233 commits, 31 PRs in 10 months
stakingimprovedethereumcontractblockchain
FloorDAO/floor-v2
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024
Floor aims to create a fully onchain governance mechanism for sweeping and deploying NFTs to profitable NFT-Fi strategies as well as seeding liquidity for its own NFT-Fi products.
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 months
blockchainethereumnftfiweb3
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