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Paul Sodimu

@paulsodimu

Founding Engineer at Mento Labs building stablecoin products, TypeScript APIs, and production AI agent systems.

At Mento Labs, I lead engineering on products for a stablecoin protocol that has settled $30B+ on-chain. I shipped Mento’s dApps, which served 700,000+ visitors in the last 12 months, and authored the TypeScript SDK used by external integrators.

I built Mento’s analytics API in NestJS and created its Foundry repository, shipping audit remediation, circuit breakers, and oracle protections. I also built the QA and invariant-testing framework the team uses to gate releases.

Alongside protocol work, I created Skein, a framework for coordinating coding agents in parallel, and Kept, a marketplace with Stripe and USDC escrow settlement. Earlier, I built reporting APIs and OAuth 2.0 authentication for regulated financial institutions at Maples Group.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Founding Engineer

Current

Mento Labs

Nov 2022 - Present (3 years 11 months)

Led the engineering team of 6 from the cLabs spin-out through 2024, then returned to hands-on IC work. Shipped the Mento dApps serving 700,000+ visitors, authored the Mento TypeScript SDK, built the analytics API, and created the mento-core Foundry repo with audit remediation and circuit breakers.

TypeScript React Next.js NodeJS NestJS PostgreSQL Docker GCP Vercel Solidity Foundry Viem Wagmi CI CD Sentry

Smart Contract Engineer

cLabs

Mar 2022 - Nov 2022 (8 months)

Designed and shipped the on-chain circuit breaker protecting Celo's stable assets from oracle manipulation. Translated monetary policy models into gas-efficient Solidity and maintained the Celo price oracle client.

Solidity TypeScript Helm Oracle Systems Smart Contracts

Open-Source Contributor

SushiSwap, Snowball, ArcherDAO

Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 (1 year)

Built automated E2E testing frameworks and CI workflows for SushiSwap's Trident router and UI, shipped DEX aggregator contracts for Snowball, and developed a gasless limit-order system for ArcherDAO.

E2E Testing CI CD Dex Smart Contracts Solidity

Senior Software Engineer

Maples Group

Jan 2016 - Jan 2021 (5 years)

Built reporting modules and APIs for a global entity-management platform, developed an OAuth 2.0 authentication server, and designed centralized logging with Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Filebeat. Led adoption of .NET Core, CI/CD, and containerization.

C#ASP.NET OAuth Elasticsearch Kibana Filebeat .NET Core CI CD Docker

Software Developer

ICAP, Credit Suisse, Agilisys, Vodafone, Just Retirement

Jan 2012 - Jan 2016 (4 years)

Built the orderbook and matching engine for ICAP's inflation trading desk, migrated a Credit Suisse risk system onto a compute grid, and shipped financial data APIs and enterprise applications with a focus on latency and reliability.

C#ASP.NET SQL Server WCF Azure