Will Shahda
Co-Founder at Tokio
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 (49)
decentralized-exchange10
erc2010
solidity9
crypto9
cryptography9
ethereum9
cryptocurrency9
smart-contracts9
cpp8
blockchain8
vim-plugin7
contract7
neovim7
vim7
frontend7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
opz/WhaleHunter
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
Find the largest holders of any ERC-20 token.
Contributions:29 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
ethereumtokenweb3soliditynft
opz/DALP-core
May 2020 - Jul 2020
The DALP smart contracts. View the DALP frontend here: https://github.com/opz/DALP-frontend
Contributions:144 commits, 2 pushes in 2 months
ethereumdecentralized-exchangeblockchainerc20solidity
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