Personal details
Mihailo M.
About
I'm a senior protocol engineer with 8 years in software engineering, 7 of them building Solidity and EVM systems in production, where mistakes are expensive and reliability is the whole job.
My work spans liquid restaking at $2B+ peak TVL, cross-chain deployments and DeFi integrations across 20+ chains, and RWA and tokenization systems. My contracts have been audited by Trail of Bits, ConsenSys Diligence, Sigma Prime, and Bailsec, alongside open audit competitions.
I lead Kelp's on-chain engineering team, and I have led protocol security response and recovery at the highest-stakes level. The lesson I carry from it is very specific: on anything that touches user funds, there is no such thing as "probably fine."
I run an AI-native workflow with a human gate on every funds-touching line: I build with one model, review with another, and scale autonomy in proportion to how reversible a mistake is.
My focus right now is on the infrastructure this cycle is converging toward: stablecoins and onchain payments, vault infrastructure, RWA and tokenization, and onchain credit, where protocol architecture and security are the core of the work.
Work Experience
A leading liquid restaking protocol built around rsETH, with $2B+ peak TVL and broad multi-chain DeFi integrations.
Impact:
- Core protocol engineer and lead of the 3-person on-chain team; rsETH deployed across 20+ chains on infrastructure that peaked above $2B TVL, with contracts audited by Sigma Prime and Bailsec.
- Built the one-click Aave leverage and deleverage product, supporting complex user flows with in-flow asset conversion and advanced risk management (including liquidation protection) on behalf of users.
- Helped launch GAIN vaults, curator-managed vaults whose receipt tokens carry deep DeFi integrations (Pendle principal/yield tokens, lending markets, cross-chain bridges) rather than closed positions.
- In collaboration with CTO, co-designed the protocol fortification program: a single-transaction global pause across all contracts via a dedicated 1-of-5 pauser multisig, plus temporary freeze with recovery to protocol custody for flagged addresses.
- Architected the Kred RWA and tokenized-credit line from scratch, standardized validator and EigenLayer node-operator processes, and am now leading the protocol's migration to Chainlink CCIP.
A specialized Layer 3 and decentralized knowledge network for Information Finance (InfoFi), optimized for attestations and building token-curated knowledge graphs.
Impact:
- Brought in to modernize the protocol contracts for mainnet launch on an urgent timeline; led preparation for a Trail of Bits audit within the first weeks in role.
- Led architecture, development, and open-sourcing of Intuition v1 and v2: 30+ production contracts shipped through rigorous audits (Trail of Bits, ConsenSys Diligence) and open audit competitions.
- Designed the novel MultiVault primitive, a fusion of ERC-1155 and ERC-4626, enabling many vaults under shared accounting in a single contract: one integration surface for users, no separate ERC-20 token per vault, and the economic backbone of Intuition's token-curated knowledge graph.
- Supported the launch of Intuition's Arbitrum-stack L3 chain and protocol upgrades for multiple releases.