Hey! I'm an enthusiastic programmer, who spends his free time integrating Rust crates together to build really cool things! I contract for a Web3 company Salt and work casually at a local programming company MFDC, as well as on many side projects that have collectively taught me most of what I know today about programming. I am currently interested in the understanding and usage of Web3 concepts such as trustless cryptograph, zero knowledge (ZK), and decentralisation, and I have experience in fullstack development.
Early 2025 I was introduced into the world of crypto and Web3 for which I know I will never turn back! This was through salt.space, a self-custodiam MPC platform with fixed fees. I have written NodeJS (ethersjs) and Rust (alloy) EVM blockchain integrations, as well as integrating their sdk with an ever-growing list of third party protocols. And, during the ETHGlobal 2025 hackathon, I taught myself to write Solidity and Noir (ZK), and how to publish smart contracts and verify circuits on chain!
Late 2022 I was brought on as a casual employee of MFDC and through them have been taught fullstack development in practise.
My experience includes vueJS (v2 and v3), NodeJS, and self-hosting with pm2.
I can design WASM and JavaScript frontends and backends, although I detest the state of Web2 (browsers, HTML, CSS, JS) and prefer the consensus of EVM with the security of Ethereum.
During high school I built a small chrome extension to change the colours of SchoolBox, an LMS our school used. It quickly grew in popularity, now it has over a hundred users spread across various schools in Australia and New Zealand. Such a simple solution, but I designed it to be transparent and automatic, so once you've installed it, it will silently sync between devices and just keep working. I wanted to mention this because it was the first time a project I had built directly impacted the lives of people I had never met before, and because it used a very-hacky method of integrating Flutter with the JS chrome extension API that I still get Github issue emails from to this day ;)
Around the same time, me and a couple other friends entered a competition called the Mathematics and Statistics Research Competition (MSRC). We won the Queensland Prize, and are now published, but my favourite part is the app I built which can be viewed in website form here: https://caleb-msrc-q11.netlify.app/. It is 100% Rust, uses a 3D game engine library called Bevy, and was an invaluable tool that has not been made before (to my knowledge). I needed to know the maths behind what I was building, but the success of that paper taught me the potential benefits of combining that domain-specific knowledge with good programming skills, which is more than just the best of both worlds.