William Pote
Senior Staff Engineer at Boundless Network
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Pote is a senior staff engineer and builder of decentralized finance infrastructure, currently leading the Boundless protocol after roles at RISC Zero and as Director of Engineering for Protocols at Uniswap Labs. He brings a decade of production-grade systems experience from AWS—where he was a founding engineer for AWS Data Exchange—to architecting high-throughput routing and subgraph services for Uniswap V3. His open-source contributions include core routing logic and quote API work for Uniswap’s Smart Order Router and routing-api, demonstrating deep familiarity with the V3 SDK and on-chain event handling. William blends hands-on backend engineering with protocol design, shipping observable, maintainable services and substantive smart-contract-adjacent tooling. He is based in New York and combines enterprise-grade delivery experience with a startup founder’s appetite for productizing cryptoeconomic primitives.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science at Imperial College London
Chinese, English
Github Skills (30)
uniswap10
javascript10
apidoc10
swap10
ethersjs10
routing-slip10
typescript10
wpgraphql10
subgraph10
api10
routes10
wordpress-graphql10
ethereum10
typescript-types10
decentralized-finance10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Uniswap/smart-order-router
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:128 reviews, 280 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:William implemented and refactored core routing functionality within the Uniswap Smart Order Router. Their work involved creating and modifying classes to define routes for token swaps, including logic for calculating routes based on input and output amounts. The user added support for different routing strategies, including V3 and V2, by introducing relevant classes and integrating them into a unified routing process. The changes demonstrate a strong understanding of the Uniswap V3 SDK and its application in a complex trading environment.
Uniswap/routing-api
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 reviews, 148 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on developing and implementing features for a quote API within the uniswap/routing-api repository. Their work involved significant changes to the quote handling logic and schema, reflecting an understanding of core backend and API design principles. These changes included modifications to token handling, routing configurations, and the construction of various data structures for efficient quote retrieval. Moreover, the user contributed to the development and refinement of a dashboard for the API, demonstrating contributions that impacted the observability and management of the routing API.
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