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johnwhitton/README.md

Hi there 👋

I enjoy working with smart contracts similar to the work which I did on eco-routes and am interested in doing more work at the protocol/infrastructure level in (go and rust). Other areas of interest are intent based architectures specifically solving and arbitrage, as well as zk-circuits and their integration into cross-chain proving mechanisms. I'm happy working as an individual contributor or leading engineering teams, as have done so for a large part of my career. Historically I've worked with Early Stage Startups 10-30 team members but am comfortable with both smaller and larger teams.

I recently worked as a Senior Protocol Engineer, previously Engineering Manager at Eco building a payment focused intent protocol on a dedicated L3 rollup. Read the docs here and the code here.

Previous work includes researching zero knowledge proofs, cryptographic primitives and consensus protocols. I also consult as a research engineer providing strategy, research, design and building out DeFi infrastructure including trustless bridging, web3 identity and wallets. Deployments have been on EVM compatible chains including Ethereum and Harmony.

Sample Projects include Modulo OTP Wallet | 1wallet on Harmony and the Harmony Name Service an implementation of ENS on Harmony, initial development was done in the orgranization jw-1ns.

I prototyped the DEX Kanga Finance (inspired by Sushi) and a DeFi parachain eave.network (inspired by Acala). Deployments on Harmony and Polkadot. As founder for these projects, I was responsible for writing whitepapers, reviewing legal infrastructure, and fundraising. Although projects had investor interest and were awarded hackathon prizes the projects did not move forward due to a combination of team commitment, market fit and crypto market conditions.

Previously I was as an Ecosystem Architect at Harmony. Where I helped launch the Harmony Mainnet, grew the ecosystem and was also intimately involved with hiring decisions and business strategy. Prior to this I was CTO for Loyyal (BaaS company) where we built private permissioned blockchains on Ethereum and Hypersphere Fabric and I managed a team of seven engineers.

I have worked extensively with decentralized financial protocols, bringing a unique perspective by combining my extensive corporate experience with IBM, SAP, Deloitte and KPMG with the disruptive financial models being developed on blockchain.

My earlier career focused on enterprise applications, service oriented architectures and cross application business processes. Where I founded a consultancy firm which grew to $800k in revenues and ran from 2000-2009. One of my former clients, EFI ($1.6 billion market cap) brought me on as a Manager in Enterprise Systems Architecture where I remained for 6 years.

I have been passionate about software and technology since high school. I graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Science majoring in Computer Science before travelling globally leading the design and development of many Service Oriented Architectures and Blockchain implementations.

Further Reading

RUST TOOLING

RUST SAMPLE REPOSITORIES

Following are sample repositories I'm reviewing as I work on Intent Solving and arbitrage opportunities.

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  1. blockchain-eval blockchain-eval Public

    4 2

  2. jinc-developers jinc-developers Public

    Developers Guide for Jincubator Developers

  3. go go Public

    Forked from stellar/go

    Stellar's public monorepo of go code

    SQLPL

  4. cooltool cooltool Public

    Forked from campoy/cooltool

    Dummy repository to demonstrate pull requests with Go

    Go

  5. chaincode chaincode Public

    Chain Code Framework

  6. harmony harmony Public

    Forked from harmony-one/harmony

    The base protocol of harmony

    Go