Derek Lee

Research convergence of LLMs and crypto-native environments, prototyping autonomous agent designs and verifiable on-chain compute to enable trust-minimized AI execution across EVM ecosystems.

Designed and implemented the Preon Finance borrowing protocol, authoring Solidity contracts for liquidation engines, redemption flows, multi-oracle feeders and a Peg Stability Module to improve stablecoin peg management.

Developed staking, farming, vesting and booster contracts with reward distribution and built a full-stack web3 dApp plus Subgraph indexing and backend APIs to enable real-time data ingestion and UI state synchronization.

Contributed to a GMX-forked decentralized perpetual exchange, authoring Vault, Referral, Liquidity Event and Reward Router contracts and building Subgraph indexers and AWS automation for liquidation and reward events.

Advised on protocol strategy, security and product direction for Pickle Finance across yield strategies and ecosystem integrations.

Built a yield aggregator across Yearn ecosystem chains, led developer team and delivered the Next.js web3 frontend while driving strategy and market analysis.

Built a multi-chain insurance protocol from conception to production across Ethereum, BSC and Arbitrum, designing smart contract architecture, product flows and deployment lifecycle with security-driven improvements.

Led the wallet ecosystem team to build HarmonyONE wallet and multisig solutions, drove DeFi ecosystem development and contributed to the sharded layer‑1 platform with products reaching 100k+ users.

Developed Mathpix Snip web editor and desktop apps across Windows, Mac and Linux, contributing across backend APIs, databases and React front-end to meet evolving client requirements.

Built a web UI for virtual machine backup software using Python/Django and a custom JavaScript framework, scaling rich UI components to handle large datasets with complex controls.

Worked on a Node.js middleware API between mobile clients and backend, redesigned architecture to clear technical debt and instituted tests and documentation to improve reliability.

Developed Node.js REST APIs, replaced SendGrid templating with a multilingual MJML/Handlebars-based service and integrated PostgreSQL and Redis for template storage and caching.

Developed and maintained web applications, overhauled a managed data access layer for SQL Server and updated cross-office web applications using JavaScript.

Completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering with coursework in software and systems engineering, relevant to blockchain and full-stack development.