Full-stack Web3 + AI Available for work

snapss.

Full-stack engineer building and operating products on Avalanche.

I'm the sole engineer behind The Grotto's L1 platform. I take work from smart contracts through backend services, indexers, frontend, and production support. I also build independent DeFi and AI products.

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3.9MRequests per week operated

94Tokens launched on the curve

Since 2024Sole engineer at The Grotto

GitHub X / @snapsnocaps

Experience

Built, shipped, operated.

My work spans the product and the systems that keep it running after launch.

Jan 2024 — present

The Grotto

Sole engineer

Build and operate a live creator and gaming platform on its own Avalanche L1, working directly with the founder from product decisions through launch and support.

Built the bonding-curve launchpad, NFT and asset marketplaces, games, and the services behind them across Solidity, Next.js, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.
Own indexers, migrations, admin and moderation tools, secrets, incidents, launch runbooks, and frontline user support in production.
Built Grotto Studio, an agentic game builder with a streamed plan-to-preview loop and release-gated publishing.

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2024 — present

Independent products

Founder & full-stack engineer

Design, ship, and operate DeFi products on Avalanche, owning their contracts, applications, infrastructure, and community launches.

Built CAVE.money, a DEX with V2 pools, concentrated liquidity, routing, and automated fee distribution.
Built EARLY.gold with time- and score-weighted reflections, backed by Foundry fuzz and invariant tests.
Led community growth for both launches, raising more than $105K in organic presales.

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Selected work

Built and shipped.

Products I designed, built, and operated across gaming, DeFi, AI, and developer tooling.

Gaming platform · Avalanche L1

The Grotto L1

Sole engineer for a creator platform with a bonding-curve launchpad, NFT and asset marketplaces, community game jams, and the infrastructure behind them.

Contracts → backend → indexers → frontend → operations

Next.jsSolidityAvalanche L1PostgreSQL

AI game creation

The Grotto Studio

Built an agentic game studio that plans, codes, previews, tests, and publishes playable games from a prompt in ephemeral sandboxes.

Streaming tool loop with on-chain usage metering

Agentic AINode.jsSandboxesWeb3

DEX · liquidity and routing

CAVE.money

Built the exchange where tokens from The Grotto's launchpad can trade, with V2 pools, concentrated liquidity, routing, and automated fee distribution.

$60K+ organic presale for my own launch

SolidityNext.jsWagmiFastify

Experimental tokenomics

EARLY.gold

Designed a time- and score-weighted reflections mechanism that rewards holders by duration and score, backed by Foundry fuzz and invariant tests.

~$45K raised through an organic presale

SolidityFoundryAvalancheToken design

Open-source GPU tooling

Vanity ETH

Created a browser-native Ethereum vanity address generator with a custom WebGPU compute kernel and independent verification of GPU matches.

No backend; encrypted keystore export

TypeScriptWebGPUWGSLWeb Workers

Skills

Capabilities across the stack

Frontend

React
Next.js
TypeScript
Tailwind CSS
Three.js / R3F

Contracts & protocols

Solidity
Foundry
Hardhat
Bonding curves
Uniswap V2 / V3 forks

Backend

Node.js
Fastify
PostgreSQL
Prisma / Drizzle
Indexers and workers

AI & operations

LLM tool loops
Ephemeral sandboxes
Launch runbooks
Incident response
Security and secret management

About snapss

I stay with a product after it ships.

I'm a self-taught engineer and independent builder working across Web3, AI, and creator tools. My work spans token economics, smart contracts, backend systems, polished interfaces, and the operational details that keep live products working.

As the sole engineer behind The Grotto ecosystem, I work closely with its founder and take responsibility from the first design decision through launch, support, and iteration.

One owner for the whole stack

I design the protocol, write and test the contracts, build the indexer and interface, and run the product after launch.

Engineering with an operator's eye

For The Grotto, I also built internal admin and moderation tools, handled production incidents, and supported the founder and users directly.

Distribution alongside development

On CAVE and EARLY, I ran community and social growth for organic presales totaling more than $105K.

Contact

Let's build something together

Hiring for Web3, AI, or full-stack engineering? Have a product to ship? Use the form to tell me what you're building, or find me on GitHub and X.