Ibex Labs
Senior Solana + backend engineering

Scoped execution for production onchain finance systems.

I'm Alex, a senior backend and Solana engineer. I help funded teams ship, migrate, and stabilize systems when protocol correctness, backend reliability, and delivery speed all matter.

Led Render ETH -> Solana migration work
Building onchain lending infrastructure for CFi
Backend and distributed systems background
Solana-first, Sui-capable
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Useful when
Bring me in for a bounded workstream where senior judgment and hands-on execution both matter.
You need senior execution without a long hiring loop
A protocol/backend workstream is important but under-owned
You are pre-audit, post-audit, or close to mainnet
You need someone who can cross protocol, backend, ops, and product

Proof

Work that maps real businesses onto Solana.

ETH -> Solana migrationRender Network logo
Render Network
Led core Solana protocol and backend work for Render's migration from Ethereum to Solana, including emissions, bridging, rewards, accounting, dashboards, and production operations.
  • Burn-and-mint equilibrium implementation
  • Wormhole bridge relayer and adhoc exchange migration support
  • Reward automation for node operators, migration incentives, and partners
  • Solo through initial protocol, backend, ops, and frontend work end-to-end; hired engineers afterward and helped hand off
Technical details->
  • Implemented Render's burn-and-mint equilibrium model on Solana: scheduled RENDER emissions plus a separate process that listened for completed render jobs and bought/burned Solana RENDER as a function of ETH RNDR spent.
  • Built token bridge flows so users could convert ETH RNDR into Solana RENDER through Wormhole, including incentive mechanics for early migration and support around large CEX migrations.
  • Automated network payment channels: weekly node-operator rewards, monthly upgrade rewards for migration participants, and partner payouts for nodes also doing compute on networks like io.net.
  • Wrote Solana programs in Rust for emissions, BME, bridge-side token movement, tokenized network entities such as render nodes, and releasing multiple reward channels.
  • Built TypeScript servers and cranker jobs for serving/indexing data from Redis/Postgres and orchestrating protocol operations against Solana.
  • Built the Solana-side bridge relayer for redeeming Wormhole VAAs into RENDER.
  • Built Postgres-backed dashboards for node operators and holders to track payments and network stats, plus internal accounting dashboards for movement tracking and reporting.
  • Ran the production stack on Kubernetes with Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Loki, Tempo, PagerDuty, Vault/bank-vaults secret injection, and Nginx ingress.
Onchain lending infrastructureCFi logo
CFi
Building an end-to-end onchain system for agricultural lending: an Anchor protocol, Bridge on/off-ramp integration, worker jobs for ACH-driven state changes, and frontend workflows for dealers and farmers.
  • Role-based lending protocol for institutional and retail lenders subsidizing farmers
  • Onchain loan origination, management, draw tranches, interest accrual, repayment settlement, and vault deposits/withdrawals
  • Bridge (Stripe) on/off-ramp integration plus ECS workers for ACH movement and onchain state advancement
  • Dealer and farmer frontend workflows for repayments and obligation monitoring
Technical details->
  • Anchor protocol for institutional and retail lenders to subsidize farmer financing, with role-based ACLs across lender, dealer, farmer, and protocol operations.
  • Onchain origination and management of loans, including creation of draw tranches as farmers spend against approved financing.
  • Interest accrual on individual draw tranches, with settlement flows covering farmer repayments, lender vault accounting, and dealer-covered farmer interest.
  • Onchain vault flows for lenders depositing into and withdrawing from lending pools.
  • Bridge (Stripe) integration for seamless fiat on/off-ramp flows around protocol activity.
  • ECS worker jobs that listen and poll for ACH fund movement, then advance onchain state and trigger accrual/settlement work.
  • Frontend surfaces for dealers and farmers to execute repayments and monitor outstanding obligations.

Where I'm useful

Work I can take off your plate.

Best for RWA, credit, stablecoin, payments, migration, and protocol teams that need one senior operator to own the messy middle between protocol, backend, ops, and product.

Solana protocol work
Anchor programs, account models, token flows, migrations, reward systems, and production-grade transaction paths.
Backend integration
TypeScript services, indexers, cranks, Postgres, Redis, observability, idempotency, retries, and operational dashboards.
Launch and audit readiness
Pre-audit cleanup, remediation, risk review, invariants, test strategy, and launch support for teams close to mainnet.
Full-stack execution
Enough frontend to ship workflows, enough infra to run them, and enough protocol context to keep the system coherent.

About

Senior solo operator, not a broad agency.

Ibex Labs is the consulting wrapper for my work. The value is not a bench of generic engineers; it is direct access to someone who can understand the system, make the architecture calls, and ship the hard parts.

I fit best with teams that already have a real business or funded protocol direction and need a senior Solana/backend workstream owned without turning it into a full hiring process.

How I work

Bounded, async-first, handoff-friendly.
Scoped sprint or part-time embedded
Async-first with clear written updates
One primary workstream at a time
Clean handoff, docs, and operational context

Stack

Built around production systems.

SolanaAnchorRustTypeScriptSui/MovePostgresRedisKubernetesGrafanaPrometheusVercelSupabase

Contact

Have a scoped Solana or onchain finance workstream?

Send a short note with what you are building, where the technical risk is, and what needs to be true in the next 4-8 weeks.

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