23 years bridging Tier-1 finance risk management and bleeding-edge EVM/SVM infrastructure. I help founders, DAOs, and Web3 funds ship capital-efficient, exploit-resistant protocols — before mainnet, not after the post-mortem.
Code is a commodity. Judgment is a career.
Both are the same product — decades of compounded judgment — packaged as either a fixed-scope engagement or an ongoing partnership.
A fixed-fee architectural review for teams approaching a mainnet launch, migration, or scaling phase. I map your state transitions, trust boundaries, and economic logic — and tell you exactly where a system that executes correctly can still lose user funds.
The technical anchor for founding teams strong on vision but light on high-stakes execution. I guide technology selection, decentralization phasing, and the architecture decisions that institutional partners and VCs scrutinize.
End-to-end strategy, consensus-mechanism design, and cross-chain execution models.
Bridging fundamentally different virtual machines, same-slot execution logic, and complex state management.
LST/LRT architectures that systematically capture and redistribute blockspace value to stakers.
Zero-knowledge proof integration (zkSNARKs, circom) for privacy-preserving institutional systems.
Teardowns of real failures, with the architecture that should have prevented them.
Architecture teardownNot a smart-contract bug — a single-verifier default that diffused responsibility across a trust boundary, and the guardrails that should have caught it.
Read the teardown →Most engineers know how to make code work. Far fewer have stood in a Tier-1 bank's risk function and an on-chain protocol's solvency engine, and understood that they are the same problem wearing different clothes.
I've spent 23 years bridging traditional-finance risk management at Credit Suisse, UBS, and HSBC with bleeding-edge Web3 infrastructure — most recently architecting the execution layer that lets Ethereum's ecosystem run natively inside the Solana SVM at Neon Labs, and building DeFi protocols that have secured $1B+ in TVL.
Beyond engineering, I publish: 5 books on Rust and Zig, the Rust Guru newsletter (2,900+ engineers), and rustlab.dev.
For a fixed-fee architecture & risk audit, or to discuss an advisory partnership.
Or directly: soaresluispt@gmail.com