Ibex Labs
Solana / Rust / backend systems

Production engineering for onchain systems.

I'm Alex, a senior backend and Solana engineer. I build Solana programs, Rust/TypeScript backend services, and the operational glue around real onchain products.

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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What I do
The work I'm strongest at lives between protocol code, backend systems, and product execution.
Solana programs and protocol integrations
Rust/TypeScript backend services around onchain systems
Frontend, dev ops, observability, alerting, and anything else needed
Working products delivered end-to-end

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

The technical surface I cover.

Best fit is Solana/Sui, RWA, credit, stablecoin, payments, migration, and protocol-adjacent teams where backend systems and onchain code have to work together cleanly.

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.
Production hardening
Tests, edge cases, operational visibility, failure modes, and the unglamorous work that keeps shipped systems from surprising you.
Full-stack execution
Enough frontend to ship workflows, enough infra to run them, and enough protocol context to keep the system coherent.

About

Backend/distributed systems background, now mostly Solana.

I started in backend and distributed systems, then moved into blockchain work over the last few years. My goal is to deliver exactly the product required in the simplest, most durable way possible.

I fit best with small, serious teams building real products where correctness, reliability, and speed all matter.

Working style

High-agency, technical, product-aware.
High-agency and comfortable with incomplete specs
Async-friendly, but direct when a decision needs to be made
Strongest where protocol, backend, product, and ops overlap
Prefer small teams, real ownership, and work that ships

Stack

Built around production systems.

SolanaAnchorRustTypeScriptSui/MovePostgresRedisKubernetesGrafanaPrometheusVercelSupabase

Contact

Building something where this background fits?

Send a short note with what you are building and where Solana, backend systems, or onchain finance complexity enters the picture.

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