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Atul Agarwal

Protocol Engineer & DeFi Founder

Building the financial primitives of the decentralized web. 5+ years shipping production-grade protocols, smart contracts, and cross-chain infrastructure in web3.

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About

I'm a protocol engineer and DeFi founder with 5+ years of deep experience shipping production-grade blockchain infrastructure. My career spans smart contracts, protocol design, advanced mathematics, backend systems, and cross-chain infrastructure.

Before diving fully into web3, I spent 3 years at MediaTek as a hardware engineer working on chip design and validation. That background instilled rigorous system thinking — designing for edge cases, understanding constraints, and optimizing for production at scale.

I've co-founded and shipped two DeFi protocols from zero to production: a decentralized perpetual futures exchange with a decentralized limit order book on a custom Avalanche Subnet (evolved from a Curve-style vAMM in V1), and a leveraged lending protocol on Aptos that peaked at $7M TVL. I own smart contracts end-to-end and contribute significantly to backend systems.

My technical depth includes order book systems, AMM mathematics (Curve StableSwap, CurveCrypto invariants), liquidation engines, and cross-chain interoperability. I'm comfortable with complex numerical methods like Newton's method for on-chain computation.

Experience

Moar Market
Founder
2024 – Present

Built a leveraged lending protocol on Aptos from scratch. Integrations with Hyperion, Tapp, and Panora across the Aptos ecosystem.

  • Live protocol with $2M TVL, peaked at $7M in January 2026
  • Owned all Move smart contracts: collateral vaults, interest rate models, oracle integrations, and liquidation logic
  • Co-built backend: indexer, liquidator bot, risk monitoring, and API layer serving the frontend
  • Defined risk parameters, collateral factors, and liquidation incentives for safe multi-asset markets
Move / Aptos Leveraged Lending Liquidation Engine
moar.market
Hubble Exchange
Co-Founder & Protocol Engineer
2021 – 2024

Co-founded a decentralized perpetual futures exchange on Avalanche. Built a decentralized limit order book (DLOB) on a custom Avalanche Subnet in V2, after proving the model with a Curve-style vAMM in V1.

V2: Decentralized Limit Order Book (DLOB) on Avalanche Subnet
  • Owned all Solidity smart contracts for the order-book DEX on a custom Avalanche Subnet where validators doubled as order matchers
  • Built cross-chain asset bridge using LayerZero (lock-mint mechanism) for seamless L1-to-subnet transfers
  • Co-built liquidator bot, order-matching service, and monitoring infrastructure
V1: Virtual AMM Perpetuals
  • Implemented Curve-style vAMM using CurveCrypto invariant — ported complex math (Newton's method iterative solver) to Solidity for on-chain price computation
  • Designed margin engine, funding rate mechanism, and multi-collateral vault system
Solidity Avalanche Subnets DLOB LayerZero Bridge CurveCrypto vAMM
@HubbleExchange
DefiDollar
Smart Contract Engineer
2021

Contributed to a stablecoin index protocol that aggregated yield-bearing stablecoins into a single diversified token. Worked on Solidity smart contracts and protocol integrations across DeFi yield sources.

Solidity Ethereum Yield Aggregation
MediaTek
Chip Design Engineer
2018 – 2021

3 years designing digital circuits for SoCs at one of the world's largest semiconductor companies. This hardware engineering background brings systems-level thinking and mathematical rigor to protocol development.

  • Timing closure, RTL verification, and physical design for production SoCs
  • Built the engineering discipline — edge-case thinking, constraint optimization, and production-grade reliability — that I carry into smart contract work
VLSI / RTL SoC Design

Technical Skills

Smart Contract Languages

  • Solidity — Foundry, Hardhat, EVM internals
  • Move — Aptos framework, resource model
  • Rust — systems-level blockchain tooling

Protocol Design

  • Perpetual futures exchange — funding rates, margin systems, liquidation engines
  • Lending & borrowing platforms — leveraged lending, interest rate models, liquidation engines
  • Order book architecture — DLOB on custom L1/Subnet
  • Cross-chain bridging — LayerZero, lock-mint patterns
  • AMM invariants — StableSwap, CurveCrypto, Newton's method solvers

Chains & Infrastructure

  • Ethereum / EVM ecosystem
  • Avalanche — custom Subnets, validator operations
  • Aptos / MoveVM

Backend & Tooling

  • TypeScript / Python — bots, indexers, APIs
  • PostgreSQL, Docker, monitoring

Writing & Thought Leadership

I write technical deep-dives on DeFi protocol mathematics and mechanism design.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi
Master of Technology (M.Tech)
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)

Let's Build Together

Open to senior protocol engineering roles, engineering lead positions, and CTO opportunities. Based in Goa, India — fully remote, any timezone.

Location:
Goa, India (Remote)
Twitter:
@0xshinobii
GitHub:
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