Senior Solana Protocol Engineer — Liquid Staking · Jito MEV · Smart Contract Security · Rust / Anchor

14+ years in software engineering. Two-time former CTO. Currently architecting a Solana liquid staking protocol at Wire Network — a ~12,000-line Rust/Anchor program handling SOL delegation across a large validator set — and leading its CertiK security audits (220+ findings triaged and remediated).

• Liquid staking protocols — stake account mechanics, delegation strategy, validator performance scoring
• MEV reward distribution — Jito tip distribution, merkle-tree reward architectures, epoch crank automation
• Protocol security & governance — audit management and remediation, Squads multisig, timelock governance, Anchor verifiable builds
• Deployment infrastructure — CI/CD for mainnet programs (GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, automated multisig proposal generation)

My protocol work lives in private repositories (current and former employers). Public artifacts — Rust systems tools and technical write-ups on Solana protocol architecture — are on the way. Green squares below reflect private contribution activity.

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/umar-bhatty
• Email: bhatty.omer@gmail.com
• Location: Lahore, Pakistan — remote (3+ hrs US overlap) · open to Gulf relocation