devtooligan

devtooligan is a blockchain security engineer well-known in the EVM community for his low-level expertise, open-source contributions and dedication to enhancing the ecosystem's security.

He began his career at Deloitte as a CPA and financial statement auditor and pivoted to Wall Street working in risk management at Morgan Stanley's credit derivative department.

He later became a digital nomad based out of Southeast Asia, took up coding, and became full stack web developer and tech lead for a fintech startup.

In 2021 he pivoted to crypto and fell in love with blockchain security. He worked as senior protocol developer and later as lead security engineer at Yield lending protocol while performing security reviews nights and weekends with Spearbit and yAcademy.

In 2023 and 2024 he joined Trail of Bits where he served as team lead for security reviews. He was known for his unique, hands-on methodologies, and creative findings.

When he's not busy reviewing code, he enjoys grinding out open-source projects, solving and creating CTF challenges, and most of all spending time with his family who he adores.