ProductAIDeFi
Founder & Product Lead.
Testing in production.
Ten years shipping across energy, data, DeFi and AI. I co-founded and ran RoboVault to $50M peak TVL, then led product at RISE through mainnet readiness across the L2, wallet stack and RISEx, its onchain perps exchange with $6B+ in cumulative volume. Today I’m experimenting with organization-wide AI harnesses to help companies put AI to better use.
Projects
10Selected work from the past decade, built inside previous roles or as shorter experiments on my own.
RoboVault
Co-Founder
Actively managed delta-neutral vaults, returning a steady ~10% APY on stablecoins for 18 months without token incentives. Grew to 5,000+ users and $50M peak TVL.
RISEx Contracts
Contributor
Core exchange contracts for a fully onchain perpetual futures venue, plus the RLP automated market-making vault designed with external market makers. Taken through full external audit; the venue has since cleared $6B+ in cumulative volume, averaging ~$90M a day.
RISE Wallet
Product Owner
Wallet stack for RISE: passkey sign-in, session keys and gas sponsorship, so an onchain app can feel like a normal one.
Open CLOB
Owner
Onchain central limit order book with Uniswap V4-style hooks, for experimenting with modular CLOB architecture inside a high-performance EVM.
Hikikomori Haven
Owner
AI companion app built on Llama 3 8B fine-tunes (Unsloth, DPO) with RAG and persistent conversation state. Five public models, with thousands of downloads on the GGUF release.
Py16z / Pyliza
Owner
Python AI-agent work around social and onchain actions, linking agent UX with crypto execution primitives.
Arkiver
Product
Blockchain indexing framework and hosted platform, so a team can manage Web3 data pipelines without rebuilding chain ingestion from scratch.
Web3 Backtest
Contributor
Backtesting library for onchain strategies, simulating yield, hedging and market-condition sensitivity before capital goes near them.
Dojima Finance
Owner
Hackathon-winning derivatives protocol exploring permissionless options, lending primitives and unusual market mechanics.
SpekBoom
Contributor
Segmentation model that finds rooftops in satellite imagery and exports them as survey-ready map pins, collapsing the cost of mapping a village before a minigrid is designed.
Writing
05Selected essays and articles on DeFi infrastructure, applied AI, and getting whole teams to actually use it.
Building a team-wide AI harness for Okra Solar.
One shared layer for company context, business playbooks, tools, permissions and review, available through Slack or a team's preferred AI client.
Read it →Unleash the Money Legos
A look back at DeFi Summer, and the case for putting native orderbooks inside a high-performance EVM.
Read it ↗DeFi on Steroids & the Death of TardFi
Why DeFi still stalls for most users, and what an onchain exchange has to do better than a centralised one.
Read it ↗Delta Neutral Strategy Deep Dive
The mechanics, risk model and automated execution behind RoboVault's hedged LP strategy.
Read it ↗RoboVault Track Record
How RoboVault's vaults worked and how the strategy performed over time.
Read it ↗Employment
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RISE
Product LeadHigh-performance Ethereum L2 for onchain markets, and RISEx, its fully onchain perpetuals exchange. I owned product strategy through to mainnet readiness, set the combined roadmap after RISE acquired BSX, and ran the product team.
Robo Labs
CEO / Co-founderRoboVault: automated delta-neutral DeFi strategies, and an early mover onchain, returning a steady 10% APY on stablecoins for 18 months without token incentives. We also consulted for other Web3 teams on custom tooling and infrastructure.
Okra Solar
CFO / Data ScientistMesh-grid hardware for last-mile electrification across Southeast Asia. I led financial strategy, raising $4M+ across equity, grants and debt as the team grew from 5 to 25, and built the models that secured $5M in project finance.
Aon
Data AnalystRemuneration analytics and data products for corporate clients, automating analysis across large datasets and managing delivery to accounts.
Awards & hackathons06
Education03
If you can’t explain why someone needs your product (or feature), then they probably don’t.Tony Fadell, Build
From a decade in early-stage startups, across finance, data and product roles, most of what I believe about product fits that one line. For reference, here is the deck from a product-ownership workshop I ran. Product Owners Guide (PDF) ↗