ERIM VARIŞ

LinkedIn | +90 506 320 3544 | ermvrs@live.com | GitHub

Skills ____________________________________________________________________________________________
• Solidity | Cairo | Rust | JavaScript | TypeScript | Assembly | Node | Express | React | Redux | Vyper | Zero Knowledge | NoSQL | Git
• AWS | Yul | Ganache | Hardhat | Truffle | Protostar | Unit Testing | Lambda | EVM | Tendermint | Substrate | Smart Contract Audit
• Finance | Decentralized Systems | Frontend | Backend | Blockend | Full-Stack | English, Turkish - All professional proficiency or above

Experience _______________________________________________________________________________________
Smart Contract Auditor Nethermind (Remote) London, UK 06/2023 - Current
• Auditing Smart Contracts: Audited mostly Cairo 1 smart contracts written to deploy on Starknet. Checked upgrading pattern from Cairo
0 to Cairo 1 for project migrations.
• Communicated with clients and reported issues found directly, suggesting solutions and improvements to their codebase. Introducing
new cairo methods if fits on their needs.
• Found critical findings and explored new attack vectors during Starknet and Ethereum communication.
• Following Cairo repository daily, notifying the team about updates, and discussing possible exploits with the community, if any.
Digine Istanbul, TR 05/2017 - 05/2023
Founder & Full-Stack
• Started as one man squad for blockchain development jobs as a freelancer. Then hired 8 people (6 developers, 2 for marketing).
• Designed and developed DeFi projects for clients in South Korea. The same client also led us to develop an NFT project for their
collaboration with Hyundai.
• NFT Projects for the design team based in Romania developed, whole blockchain architecture and setup done.
• Adviced general technology of blockchain to departments in the Economy Minister of Turkey.
• Developed and registered projects named Librava, Turquoise Network and Expectium under Digine.
• Managed the whole development team and fastened their process on moving web3. Old-hired people are now working on top blockchain
companies.
• Developed & designed the whole blockchain architecture and blockchain core with Tendermint and Substrate for private network clients.
• Created workshops and hackathons for web2 developers to move in web3, whole events organized by Digine.
Blockend Developer & Auditor Meta Venture Fund New York, NY, USA 01/2022 - 04/2023
• Designed and implemented enterprise fintech applications of Meta Venture Funds startups and funded blockchain projects
driving more than $50 million as TVL with technologies of Solidity, React, Typescript, MongoDB, Redux, and Rust.
• Reported directly to CEO: Engineering lead for designing and developing the decentralized financial applications dashboard that
provides analytic metrics.
• Security controls and auditing smart contract developments for funded startups. Design their smart contract architecture with proof of
security.
• Researched & designed tokenomics and implemented smart contracts based on protocols aimed at the network.
• Developed & Published ERC721 PoaP NFT smart contract for the event on stage of NFT Summit Istanbul 2022 which was organized by
Meta Venture Fund.

Smart Contract Engineer, Contract Arcelik Innovation Istanbul, TR 08/2022 - 05/2023

• Guided team about how to develop a web3 project and different processes of development from Web2 projects.
• Designed blockchain architecture of smart contracts, web3 connections, and indexers.
• Developed specific NFT marketplace smart contracts, which include trade functions and specific marketplace options.
• Worked together with other teams to help them understand Web3 space and how things work on Web3.
Education ________________________________________________________________________________________
Bachelor of Science Marmara University Istanbul, TR 08/2015 - 12/2022
• Major in Environment Engineering
Projects __________________________________________________________________________________________
• EXPECTIUM: Information Markets on top of Starknet. Up to 1000+ transactions at first 5 minutes of release. Whole tech. stack, including
frontend and smart contract developed by only me. Link to Expectium Testnet. (03/2023)
• TURQUOISE NETWORK: EVM-based blockchain project that uses fiat currencies as fee tokens and internal DeFi. (05/2022)
• DECENTRAL WORKS: Developing a physical Web3 hub in Rotterdam, NL. I am the solution architect of the team and will provide
solutions using STARKs for our clients all over Europe. (11/2023) Future-Plan
Contributions__________________________________________________________________________________________
• Satoru: Contributed to GMX v2 implementation in Cairo. In the top 3 contributors to the project, according to Onlydust
• Alexandria: Implemented rust array methods for the cairo library.
 ERIM VARIŞ
LinkedIn | +90 506 320 3544 | ermvrs@live.com | GitHub
Mentorship _______________________________________________________________________________________
• NFT Summit IST22: Developed ERC721 Standard contract on stage of NFT Summit. (05/2022)
• WEB3 DEV SUMMIT ISTANBUL: Workshop about zk-rollups and Starknet | Ethereum roll-up differences | career advice | smart contract
development on Starknet (12/2022)
Others ___________________________________________________________________________________________
• Starknet Developers Turkey: Managing & raising new developers for Starknet. Teaching people both Rust and Cairo. (06/2022)
• Starknet Turkey: Supporting projects under development in Starknet Turkish ecosystem. (06/2022)