konradstrachan.github.io
whoami
Greetings! I’m Konrad Strachan, a seasoned technologist, developer and CTO with a lifelong passion for coding, problem-solving, and team building. I wrote my first code at 7 years old and have never stopped building, iterating, hacking and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
💡 I’m driven by an insatiable curiosity and an appetite for solving complex real world problems.
🌟 My interests revolve around building systems where the complex interactions of different participants result in a positive sum outcome for all.
🚀 I believe in iterating rapidly, failing fast and embuing everything with instrumentation and metrics collection to gain insights which then drive further decision making. A tight cycle of building, measuring, learning (and then repeating with learnings) in my experience has been the strongest indicator of an effective team.
In my recent career I have served as CTO for a number of years at Rhinofi (formerly DeversiFi), navigating several shifts within web3 over the previous market cycles. During this time I built the high performance matching engine and execution infrastructure that to date processed > $1.5 Billion USD in volume without issue and powered the first production ready Layer 2 rollup DEX back in 2020. Utilising modular liquidity sources to underpin the markets (one of which was the first AMM to blend price curves with quantised orderbook liquidity dynamically), the matching engine allowed users to have the same trading experience they’d experience on a centralise exchange in terms of speed, liquidity and convenience but with the added benefits of decentralisation, self-custody and trustlessness.
🧐 I am a firm advocate of the KISS principle and believe the real test of any skill (whether in architecture, system design or software development etc) is being able to condense complex conceptual or technical elements into clearly articulable forms that easily convey the essense without exteneous complexities.
Whenever possible I attend tech and web3 events around the world to collaborate with thought leaders to share knowledge and insights on decentralization, self-sovereignty, and trustlessness along with driving discussions around the future of solver based execution services. I love talking about problems I’ve solved, sharing knowledge and presenting information.
Things I have built have run on
I’ve built projects, tools and apps that run on everything from blockchains, high performance servers to embedded low power devices and games consoles. If I have something, it’s likely I’ve at least tried to modify and write some code for it..
Selected open source / hackathon projects
A collection of personal projects and hackathon submissions I have worked on over the years. Several of the entries below (marked with 🏆) have received awards at various hackathons I have participateed in.
- RFQ style marketplace for bridging using intents with Solvers who are incentivised through fees to provide a bridging service 🏆
- Adding event driven possibilities to EVM smart contract development through trustless callbacks leveraging incentivised execution 🏆
- Twitter bots in web3 without the trust using account abstraction
- AI guided auditing of smart contracts built using Solidity and Python using openAI storing audit results verifiably on the blockchain 🏆
- Popular Pebble smartwatch watchface called AcitivityFace written in C and Javascript
- High performance spot market matching engine written in C++17 MatchingEngine
- Lockless queuing for inter-thread orchestration prototype
- Trustless multi-token vesting written in Solidity 🏆
- Proof of concept prediction market platform powered by an optimistic oracle built on the Tezos blockchain using SmartPy 🏆
- Algorithmic stablecoin for ZK chain Aleo written in Leo 🏆
- Simple isometric game called Hopper for Pebble smartwatches written in C
- Experimental console framebuffer output written in C++17