Building small, dependency-light Rust crates for the Solana ecosystem — the kind of tools I keep wishing existed when I'm wiring up an indexer or a routing path at 2 a.m. and don't want to pull in another framework.

Most of my time goes into:

• DeFi primitives: AMM math, oracles, liquidation paths
• Off-chain indexing & quoting (Yellowstone gRPC, RPC fan-out, caching)
• The boring-but-load-bearing glue: error handling, backoff, retries

I tend to keep things readable over clever. If a crate I publish reaches 1k lines, it's already too big.

• lighthouse-router — off-chain DEX route discovery on Solana. Pool decoders for Raydium / Orca Whirlpool / Phoenix, multi-hop quoting, and Bellman-Ford negative-cycle detection for marginal arbs. Honest about its limits — refuses to quote rather than lie.

• Why "fast" usually means "fewer indirections" before it means "more cores"
• The half-life of an MEV strategy
• How much of "DeFi infra" is still just careful event sourcing in disguise

If you want to talk Solana, oracles, or Rust async patterns — happy to.