William Ridge - Cooki

Software Engineering

Building Secure Crypto-Economic Systems

A summary of my smart contract engineering experience

Experience

Onchain Team Lead

2025 — Present

Wonderland · Remote (UK)

At Wonderland, I directed a high-performing engineering team through the full development lifecycle to build an interoperable, multi-chain, decentralized product suite. Beyond product delivery, I pioneered the integration of LLM-enhanced workflows to accelerate velocity while ensuring rigorous security standards were maintained, and coordinated closely with external auditors to deliver the highest levels of onchain integrity.

Senior Solidity Engineer

2024 — 2025

Clearpool Finance · Remote (Aus)

In this role I spearheaded development of core company products, including a set of Liquidity Generation Event (LGE) contracts and a yield-bearing stablecoin. I also collaborated closely with third-party teams such as Layer Zero, Aerodrome, and Lido to help realise Clearpool's vision and align technical solutions with strategic goals.

Freelance Solidity Developer

2022 — 2024

Various Organisations · Remote (Aus)

Throughout my time as a PhD student I worked directly with several teams to design, build, and deploy robust smart contract systems tailored to meet client needs. This entailed delivering end-to-end solutions, from consultation and contract development to comprehensive testing and iterative deployment. Clients included Synthetix/Infinex, Aelin DAO, Based Bits, Hashes DAO, and Dawn Protocol.

Skills & tools

SolidityTypescriptGoFoundryHardhatSystems DesignGit