Adel Akbar

👋 Hello, world!

I'm Adel Akbar. I build the future of finance onchain by day and small, friendly apps by night.

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Meet dawg
Now building

dawg — a cute workout logger

A friendly gym buddy with a puppy who cheers on your PRs. Coming soon to the App Store.

Work

Since 2017

  1. Ondo Finance

    Smart Contract Integration Engineer

    Now2026 — Present

  2. LayerZero Labs

    Integration Engineer

    2025

    Led end-to-end integrations for top partners, architecting and deploying custom OFT/OApp contracts across Ethereum, Solana and Move VMs.

    • Solidity
    • Rust
    • Move
    • TypeScript
    • Foundry

  3. Sublime Ventures

    Senior Software Engineer

    2023 — 2024

    Built a web3 venture-capital SaaS platform end to end, from Diamond-standard Solidity contracts for investor payouts to the AWS CI/CD pipeline.

    • Next.js
    • Node.js
    • PostgreSQL
    • Solidity
    • AWS

  4. GlidingGrowth

    Founder

    2023

    Took an AI-powered outreach startup from concept to production, pitching investors and running customer discovery along the way.

    • Next.js
    • Prisma
    • OpenAI
    • Stripe

  5. Amazon Web Services

    Software Development Engineer

    2022 — 2023

    Built cluster monitoring for AWS Snowball that automated Cassandra repairs, and backend APIs for EC2 Auto Scaling Groups. Mentored new hires and interns.

    • Java
    • React
    • Cassandra
    • Linux
Earlier roles 8
  • Amazon Web ServicesSDE Intern2020
  • Peloton TechnologiesSoftware Engineer Intern2020
  • nwPlusExternal Dev Coordinator2020
  • UBC PsychologyWeb Application Developer2020
  • UBC Launch PadDeveloper2019
  • VisierSoftware Developer Co-op2019
  • University of British ColumbiaTeaching Assistant, Sports Analyst2018
  • Alpha Digital SolutionsWeb Designer2017
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Hackathons

4 cities · 4 continents

Web3 is where I've specialized: building at hackathons, judging them, and breaking contracts in security CTFs.

  1. Buenos Aires, Argentina Nov 2025

    Aetheria at ETHGlobal Buenos Aires

    An omnichain game on LayerZero V2. Send your NFT to battle on another chain, earn rewards back cross-chain, and trade resources on a cross-chain marketplace.

    Top 5 · Web3 security CTF LayerZero V2SolidityFoundry Code ↗
  2. Prague, Czechia 2025

    Judge for LayerZero at ETHGlobal Prague

    Judged LayerZero's prize track, reviewing teams' cross-chain builds.

    Judge · LayerZero
  3. Bangkok, Thailand Nov 2024

    Votr at ETHGlobal Bangkok

    AI voting delegates that learn your values and vote on DAO proposals for you. Contracts deployed on Polygon, Base, Flow and Bitkub.

    AI agentsSolidityDAO governance Code ↗
  4. San Francisco, USA Oct 2024

    Betsy at ETHGlobal San Francisco

    Sports betting in a group chat. An LLM turns plain-English bets into on-chain wagers on SKALE, settled automatically with live NBA results.

    Led the team to the top 10 XMTPSKALECoinbase SDKLLMs Code ↗

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