JMES World
Head of Engineering
Bootstrapped a DAO's P2P consensus and the legally-compliant tokenization of fine art, music productions & intellectual properties and Clubs membership system.
The second ascent
Principal Engineer — DeFi / RWA lending protocol
DeFi · RWA · 2024 — present · Remote
An undisclosed DeFi / RWA protocol: lending and borrowing against NFT- and ERC-collateralized positions, with vote-escrow governance and treasury systems. The work runs the full depth — twenty-plus production-grade contracts with security and time-lock mechanisms and real financial-math models, through the SSR frontend, RPC tooling and a deployer suite, down to dockerized localnets that interface mainnet. The signature contribution is iREET: a crypto-MSCI-World index for real-world assets, on a protocol holding roughly $100M in tokenized gold and housing. The codebase has been put through real audit firms and an open competition. As in the larger pattern, a decisive operator holds the commercial front while the engineering is owned end to end.
Head of Engineering
Bootstrapped a DAO's P2P consensus and the legally-compliant tokenization of fine art, music productions & intellectual properties and Clubs membership system.
Head of Innovation
Drove ICO strategy, a staking / multi-asset platform and multi-chain asset integrations for a crypto exchange.
Lead → Principal Developer
Built the chain's decentralized API and flagship wallet, led the teams, and co-invented ChainLocks & SML/DML — a patented breakthrough.