01Prediction-markets trading terminal
Vantic
High-performance trading terminal with a fused orderbook in Go, sub-25ms matching latency, and multi-chain wallet infrastructure on Solana and Base.
aka David
Backend & systems engineer building fast, reliable financial infrastructure in Go and Rust. DeFi protocols, SDKs, and developer tooling.
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
I'm a backend engineer focused on systems that are fast, reliable, and built to last. I work primarily in Go and Rust, with a deep focus on financial infrastructure, DeFi protocols, and developer tooling.
I've built production systems across fintech and Web3, from a high-performance trading terminal with a fused orderbook achieving sub-25ms matching latency, to stablecoin payment infrastructure handling concurrent state transitions at 99.9% uptime, to protocol indexers and lending protocol backends on Aptos and Solana.
Outside of work I build in the open. I created BeaconOnBase, a protocol that makes any codebase instantly agent-ready via MCP. I write SDKs for protocols I find interesting. And I'm currently building Demi, a subset of Go that compiles to Solana's SBF bytecode.
I care about the primitives. The infrastructure nobody sees but everyone depends on.
Away from the terminal, I watch a lot of anime [AOT, JJK, CSM], and bleed red for Liverpool. Not much of a gym guy, but I'll always show up for a game of soccer or ping pong.
8 featured systems: infrastructure, protocols, and SDKs. Keep scrolling →
High-performance trading terminal with a fused orderbook in Go, sub-25ms matching latency, and multi-chain wallet infrastructure on Solana and Base.
Backend and protocol indexer for a DLMM + lending protocol on Aptos/Cedra, wiring smart contract calls into REST APIs.
Open protocol that makes any repository instantly agent-ready via MCP, with on-chain identity registration and AI capability inference.
Go, TypeScript, and Rust SDK for interacting with Xandeum's pNode architecture via the pRPC API.
Go SDK wrapping Magicblock's confidential payment API, covering the full SPL transfer flow including signing and RPC routing.
Go-to-SBF compiler
A subset of Go that compiles to Solana's SBF bytecode. Work in progress.
Privacy-first, Solana-native browser built for the Seeker. Features a custom search engine for the Solana ecosystem, written in Go.
A decentralized VPN designed to run on the DAWN Black Box hardware ecosystem, routing traffic through a privacy-preserving mesh of user-owned nodes.
The tools, hardware, and software I use daily to build things. Inspired by uses.tech. Keep scrolling →