Now
Cofounder of Polynomial Protocol — an on-chain perpetual futures protocol with $9B+ in cumulative trading volume, running on our own OP Stack L2 chain purpose-built for derivatives. Backed by Archetype, Road Capital, Caballeros Capital, and angels including Kain Warwick (Synthetix), Jordan (Synthetix), Scott Sunarto (eGirl Capital), Eden Au (The Block), and Mike (Lyra). Born at ETHGlobal HackMoney 2021.
Previously ML Engineer at JustWatch (Berlin) and Research Intern at the University of Messina (Italy), where I published on trustless ML inference at IEEE SmartComp 2019.
Press
CoinDesk — "Ethereum L2s Are About to Hit a Brick Wall, Polynomial Protocol Founder Says" (Jan 2025)
Also covered by BlockBeats, ChainCatcher, Gate.io, PANews, Binance Square, and COINOTAG.
Forbes — "For Cryptocurrency Investors, Optimism's Token Is a Bust. Its Ethereum L2 Solution Is Not" (Apr 2023)
Synthetix — "Polynomial Finance: Leading the Charge in DeFi Trading" (Case Study)
Threads
Hyperliquid's Centralization Exposed — How a trader forced Hyperliquid to choose between a $12M loss or revealing their centralized controls (Mar 2025)
The Bybit Hack — Breaking down the largest crypto heist in history: $1.46B+ stolen, 16% of all previous crypto hacks combined (Feb 2025)
Ethereum L2s Are About to Hit a Brick Wall — 55% of all blob space consumed by just 2 chains. Picked up by CoinDesk, BlockBeats, Gate.io, PANews, Binance Square (Jan 2025)
Sony's L2 Censorship Backfire — How Sony's attempt to block "unapproved" tokens on their OP Stack L2 spectacularly backfired in 24 hours (Jan 2025)
Why General Purpose L2s Might Be a Trap — HyperLiquid approaching Arbitrum's market cap reveals a crucial insight about where protocols should build (Dec 2024)
Interviews & Talks
ETHTaipei 2023 — How to Improve PowerPerp AMM
Permissionless Podcast — The Derivatives Superchain
Polynomial: The New Contender in the DeFi Perps Arena
DeFi Talks with DeFi Dad — How ETH Options Vaults Work on Polynomial
How to Build a Web3 Startup — Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & the Future of Money
KYB #6 — Polynomial Deep Dive
Notable Writing
Interview with Ian Goodfellow — Interviewed the inventor of GANs on deep learning, generative models, and the future of AI research (2017)
Products and Projects 🎉
🙈 Feature Monkey SaaS customer feedback tool - Won Product Hunt Silver Kitty Award
🛡 Safeguard Decentralized password manager made using blockstack. Product Hunt Extension Can't be evil hackathon
✨Hazel - Build, train, and ship custom deep learning models using a simple visual interface. Won Prototype.
👔 Machine Learning Jobs List Machine Learning Jobs Portal Featured Product
🚀 ayyo - a paywall with one line of code. Ayyo won Skale bounty at ETHParis.
🐘 Anna Assistant Your personal assistant for Chrome. #3 Product Of the Day
🎯 Karma - The Smart Habit Tracker. #4 Product of the Day
🙏 Pelican Facebook Make your Facebook experience minimal and focused. Product Hunt
Previous
🎥 Machine learning at JustWatch.
🇪🇺 Research Intern at the University of Messina.
🇮🇳 Software dev intern at Headout in Bangalore.
Publications
🤖 Gautham Santhosh, Fabrizio De Vita, Francesco Longo, Dario Bruneo and Antonio Puliafito. Towards Trustless Prediction-as-a-Service, SmartComp 2019, Washington DC
Blog
- Hyperliquid's Centralization Problem | Mar 2025
- The Bybit Hack: Largest Crypto Heist in History | Feb 2025
- Ethereum L2s Are About to Hit a Brick Wall | Jan 2025
- Sony's L2 Censorship Backfire | Jan 2025
- Why General Purpose L2s Might Be a Trap | Dec 2024
- Python Tricks 101 | Jul 2018
- Audio Style Transfer | Sep 2017
- Manjaro Deepin review | June 2018
Talks
🤖 Building Machine learning powered application - Hackoverflow - NIT Durgapur, India - April 2021 slides
🎨 How to see programming as art - a beginners guide to programming - RJIT, India - Feb 2021 slides
👩💻 Beyond hackathons: launching products after hackathon - Hack in the north, IIIT Allahabad, India - Dec 2020 YouTube
💬 How to build a chatbot in 30 mins - IIIT Allahabad, India - Feb 2017 slides