About

I build systems.

In 2021, during an ETHGlobal hackathon, I threw away two weeks of work overnight and started from scratch. Three minutes before the deadline, I submitted the first version of what would later become Gearbox Protocol.

Since then, I've been building Gearbox as a co-founder — designing its core architecture and working across leverage, risk, and system design. Along the way, I introduced credit accounts — a new DeFi primitive — and built a verification layer for on-chain bytecode (BCR), ensuring deterministic deployments.

At its peak, Gearbox held over $400M in deposits. It has been running in production since 2021 without a single loss of user funds — which, in DeFi, is the only metric that really matters.

Before all of that, I spent years shipping custom software and co-founded SPB Developers, a blockchain developer community in Saint Petersburg that grew to 400 developers.

In 2024, I started exploring autonomous agents, building early prototypes around AI-driven strategies and programmable coordination → see thread. I worked on deterministic on-chain agents, real-world data oracles, and systems where behavior is defined at runtime and executed on-chain.

Working on these systems led me into a new class of engineering problems: preserving context, building persistent memory, and making decisions reliable and verifiable across agents and humans.

Gearbox taught me how to build systems of capital. My next chapter is systems of coordination — autonomous agents whose decisions are verifiable by design.

This site is where I write about that shift — the best way to follow along is on X.