Will Shahda
Co-Founder at Self-employed
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorWill Shahda is a blockchain-focused founder and engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling DeFi and Web3 products from smart contracts to token launches. He has raised $3.6M in seed funding, launched protocols that reached over $70M TVL and tokens totaling $600M FDV, and has a consistent hackathon track record with awards from six events. Beginning Ethereum work in 2015 and Solidity development by 2018, he has led teams as CEO, founder, and advisor across projects including APY.Finance, CortexDAO, and several anonymous DeFi/GameFi ventures. Based in New York, he blends hands‑on smart contract engineering, product leadership, and algorithmic trading experience, and often moves quickly from prototype to funded production. An under-the-radar strength is his history of organizing and winning hackathon teams, which fuels rapid iteration and fundraising success.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (39)
decentralized-exchange10
erc2010
crypto9
blockchain9
ethereum9
smart-contracts9
frontend8
solidity7
contract7
vim7
cpp7
programming-language6
deep-reinforcement-learning5
fixed-point5
number-format5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
opz/refi-core
May 2020 - Jun 2020
ReFi Smart Contracts
Contributions:56 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 16 days
smart-contractsdefierc20ethereumflash-loans
opz/DALP-frontend
May 2020 - Sep 2020
The DALP frontend. View the DALP smart contracts here: https://github.com/opz/DALP-core
Contributions:66 commits, 10 PRs, 32 pushes in 4 months
frontendsmart-contractsethereumdefiblockchain
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