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AI Helped Me Become a Writer
I despised writing as a child. Now I write. AI didn't replace my voice — it gave me a hearing aid for my own thoughts.
Zero Kelvin
Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years in the software industry, specializing in Solana smart contracts, DeFi integrations, and backend infrastructure — with a growing edge in agentic AI development workflows.
Most recently at Hawksight, where I authored production smart contracts powering DeFi liquidity management across Meteora, Jupiter, Orca, and Raydium, built the TypeScript SDK and backend API, and designed a custom Solana testing framework from scratch.
I think in systems. Whether it's architecting a security-split smart contract with 110+ on-chain instructions, building a YAML-driven data ingestion pipeline in Go, or managing Kubernetes infrastructure — I care about getting the structure right so everything else follows.
What I Work With
Rust, TypeScript, Go, Python, Solana, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and whatever else the problem demands. I've shipped production code in Laravel, React, Vue, Express, and Actix-web. I run NixOS and use Claude Code as part of my daily workflow.
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