Smart contract security researcher. Active on Sherlock, Code4rena, and Guardian Audits. Background in regulated-domain QA (Finance, Healthcare) before transitioning to Web3 security.

• MEDIUM: MEV-extractable liquidation penalty weighting (confirmed as part of #1114 duplicate family)

• MEDIUM: WETH-DEBT missing ETH fallback in _distributeOrCollectLiquidityToken (validated, payout pending)

• LOW: Finding downgraded from Medium during judging
• LOW: Additional finding (C grade)

• 5 validated findings across educational contests

• Code4rena — Monetrix (results pending)
• Code4rena — K2 LayerZero (in progress)

• Devil's filter: who benefits, what's the concrete trigger, what's the honest user harm?
• Test-before-submit: validate findings with Foundry PoCs before submission
• Falsification-first: kill weak hypotheses rather than padding reports
• Multi-source cross-check: AI tools as suggestions, verify against spec and code

• Blok Capital Builder Cohort #1 (March-April 2026, taught by Nick Mudge)
• Rektoff Launchpad Solana security bootcamp (current)
• Master of Science in Computer Science (in progress)

Solidity, Foundry (forge test, invariant fuzzing), Slither, fork testing against mainnet state.

• ModularGarden — ERC-2535 Diamond + ERC-4337 Account Abstraction. Built for Blok Capital Builder Cohort.
• Async Settlement RWA Vault — ERC-4626 with T+1/T+2 settlement
• Policy-Governed Agent Payments — Payment infrastructure for AI agents with on-chain policy enforcement

📧 Email: kalyansde1@gmail.com
🐦 X (Twitter): @kalyan__tr
💼 GitHub: @tr-Kalyan