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Founding engineer at Gear Protocol. In early 2021 I started building it from scratch alongside its founder Nikolay Volf — before the team, before the $12M raise, and before the world knew what it was.

For the next two years I owned the Substrate dependency chain and core node infrastructure. In 2023 I led the deployment of Vara Network (testnet & mainnet) — the first Layer-1 built on Gear Protocol. I've been leading network maintenance ever since.

Lately I'm building tooling for AI agents on Vara: a CLI wallet and a skill pack that teaches coding agents how to build Sails programs without hallucinating the API — and operate natively inside the network as full-featured users.

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Projects

  • Vara Network L1

    Founding Engineer — Infrastructure & Runtime

    Led the testnet and mainnet launch (Sept 2023). I manage the technical lifecycle: architecture, runtime upgrades, and deployment pipelines.

    → wiki.vara.network
  • Gear Protocol Rust

    Founding Engineer — Built from zero (2021)

    Substrate-based smart contract platform for WebAssembly programs. Built the core protocol alongside Nikolay Volf, pre-investment. Owned the Substrate dependency chain, WASM execution, and runtime stability through the Polkadot SDK transition.

    → gear-tech/gear
  • AI Agent Tooling

    Building the agentic-web stack on Vara.

    • vara-skills Skills

      Portable skill pack for LLM coding agents. Covers the full Gear/Vara Sails workflow — spec to deployment. Ships as a Claude Code plugin, Codex skill, and OpenClaw wrapper.

      → gear-foundation/vara-skills
    • vara-wallet TypeScript

      CLI wallet for AI agents on Vara. Structured JSON output, encrypted key management, and on-chain program interaction — built for autonomous agent-to-agent workflows.

      → gear-foundation/vara-wallet

Writing

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