I'm the co-founder of WakeUp Labs, an engineering company building applications, infrastructure, and protocols. I work at the intersection of company strategy, product execution, and business development, taking ideas from concept to implementation with a focus on long-term impact.
My background is in software engineering, business development, finance, and product strategy. I’ve helped scale teams, launch products, and support ecosystem growth. I'm naturally curious and often drawn to connecting ideas from very different areas. That’s usually where I find the most interesting things to build.
WakeUp Labs is a software engineering company focused on:
- Core infrastructure for fintech, web3, and decentralized systems
- End-to-end product development: from strategy and prototyping to deployment
- Tooling and protocols that support scalable ecosystems
- Co-created products with startups, DAOs, and corporations
- Hands-on experiments that turn ideas into working code
We also contribute to governance, research, and collaborate with DAOs, L2s, and protocol foundations to shape long-term ecosystem strategy.
- Decentralized Finance, real estate, agribusiness, public goods, and alternative assets
- Liquid markets in traditionally illiquid or fragmented sectors
- Fintech integrations and next-gen payment rails
- Decentralized governance and long-term ecosystem design
- Security, IA and research
I contribute to a wide range of projects—some as a builder, others through WakeUp Labs, and many as experiments, collaborations, or public goods. WakeUp works with startups, DAOs, and corporations, often helping bring products to life from zero to one.
- Ethereum – L2 infra, tokenization tooling, governance, and ecosystem strategy
- Bitcoin – exploring OP_CAT, STARKs, asset issuance, and Bitcoin-native zk infra
- Optimism – Retro Funding projects, dev tooling, OP Stack integrations
- Arbitrum – apps and infra with Orbit and Arbitrum One
- zkSync – governance interfaces and ZK-native tooling
- Polygon – liquidity UX, token integrations
- Base – early deployments, growth and infra strategies
- Filecoin / IPFS – decentralized storage integrations
- Starknet / Cairo – experimental zk use cases
- Rootstock – smart contracts, relay infra, explorer tools, DAO
- Bitcoin Layer 2s – R&D around rollups, sidechains, and drivechains
- Coinbase – Creating cool stuff using Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP)
- Liquid Markets – real-time liquidity for tokenized, low-liquidity assets
- Governance tools – onchain voting, snapshot automation, multi-chain support
- Automation bots – analytics, arbitrage, ops
- DAO dashboards & multisig tooling
- Edge AI – exploring AI implementation on hardware for real-world asset use cases
- Energy management – exploring revenue opportunities from unused energy in continuous-use infrastructures
- Cross-domain UX – frictionless payments, swaps, and on/off ramps
- M&A and Partnerships exploration – looking at emerging infra, tooling, growth partners, and new markets
Frontend: NextJS, React Native, React, Vue.js, TypeScript, JavaScript
Backend: NodeJS, Golang, Rust, Elixir, Python, C++
Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Prisma, Supabase
Web Frameworks: Django, Flask
Blockchain: Solidity, zk-SNARKs, Circom, Cairo, EVMs, Tendermint, Substrate
Data & Analytics: BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Airflow, dbt, Kafka, Spark
Visualization: Metabase, Tableau, Superset
Cloud & Infra: AWS, Vercel, Ansible, Terraform, S3, Delta Lake
Tools & APIs: Auth0, Alchemy, Pinata, HardHat, AI-assisted vibecoding
AI & ML: TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Hugging Face, OpenAI API
- 🧠 X / Twitter: @0xmdh
- 📝 Blog: wakeuplabs.io/blog
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/0xmdh