Selected blockchain engineering work

Eduardo Melo.

Head of Blockchain.
Hands-on engineer.

I build smart contracts, APIs and the apps around them. My work spans production payments at Philcoin, full-stack membership products and an EVM Layer 1 in Rust.

Florianópolis, Brazil · Remote, US & Europe

Selected experience
Philcoin / YouthChain / Rise / FearsOff / Orium / Seedify
Selected engineering work

What I built.
How it works.

Most of my work lives in private repositories. These cases make my contribution visible through system flows, delivery details and public artifacts where available.

Start here · PhilcoinDelivered to production

Founders Club

A membership product I built from zero: frontend, backend, smart contracts and integration with the Phil app.

  • Purchase and escrow
  • Identity verification
  • NFT membership certificate
  • App benefits and rewards
One connected user journey
  1. 1
    PurchaseWallet + Solidity
  2. 2
    Verify identityDidit + backend
  3. 3
    Issue certificateSolidity + NFT
  4. 4
    Connect benefitsPhil API + rewards

Frontend · API · Solidity · Phil ecosystem

01

Philcoin & the Phil app

Head of Blockchain · Four connected products spanning membership, rewards, commissions and token swaps.

01Delivered to production
Membership platform

Founders Club

Frontend, API, escrow contracts, KYC and NFT certificates — one connected product.

Frontend + backend + Solidity + Phil API integrationView case study
02Production integration
App-to-chain integration

Phil app · Rewards

Connected the app, API, rewards service and Polygon contracts — including the failure and recovery paths.

Contracts + backend integration + production reliabilityView case study
03Backend in production
Commission & payout system

Ambassador Program

Commission attribution, a database ledger and treasury payouts signed through AWS KMS.

Backend + treasury integration + member & admin interfacesView case study
04Mainnet demonstration
Token conversion & claims

PHL → GIVE Swap

Polygon swap positions, per-position unlock times and Merkle-proof claims on BSC.

Frontend + Solidity + wallet integration + deploymentView case study
02

Protocol & payment infrastructure

Engineering below the application layer — and the systems that move value across chains.

05Four-validator testnet
Rust · EVM Layer 1

YouthChain

Rust consensus, EVM execution, JSON-RPC and engagement batching on a four-validator testnet.

Core protocol + Solidity + application infrastructureView case study
06Production payroll work
Cross-chain payroll

Rise

Multi-token deposits into USDC and CCTP payroll across 7+ networks, from contracts to async jobs.

Solidity + API + asynchronous processingView case study
03

DeFi, security & earlier delivery

Selected work in contract auditing, NFT infrastructure and blockchain team leadership.

07Completed engagement
Smart contract security

FearsOff

Security reviews across exchange and DeFi contracts, with actionable findings and remediation guidance.

Manual review + static analysis + fuzzingView case study
08Multi-chain protocol work
NFT rental & indexing

Orium Network

NFT rental and lending across three chains, with a subgraph covering 15+ event types.

Solidity + event indexing + partner integrationView case study
09Completed delivery
Staking, tokens & NFT launches

Seedify

Led blockchain delivery and review across SFUND staking, GMFAM and two NFT collections.

Solidity + team leadership + security review + CI/CDView case study
The engineer behind the work

Hands-on delivery.
Technical ownership.

I’m Eduardo Melo, a blockchain engineer with over five years in Web3 and more than twelve years in software engineering. At Philcoin, I own the on-chain stack and its connections to backend and mobile teams.

My work spans Solidity applications, production integrations, smart contract security and Rust protocol engineering. Earlier in my career, I built enterprise systems with teams at Avanade / Accenture, Beck et al. and Neoenergia.

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