My Journey

Set up the core development environment on the MSI, brought up ClickHouse, verified connectivity, and prepared the foundation to start coding.

Drafted a full workplan for a Solana real-time indexing product, outlining the architecture, phases, and deliverables for a marketplace transaction indexer my connection wants to hire me to build.

Researched real-time indexing and backfilling on Solana, exploring data engineering approaches and best practices.

Learned how bonding curves enable automated pricing and instant liquidity for tokens, and designed a full Pump.fun-style protocol architecture that implements them end-to-end.

Learned to build APIs in Rust using Axum and related crates, focusing on getting comfortable with the syntax, structure, and overall logic for writing clean backend code.

Learned how to build an on-chain overcollateralized stablecoin protocol using Anchor with CDPs, oracle pricing, interest accrual, and liquidations.

Learned to build a full production-grade REST API in Rust using Axum, implementing JWT auth, CRUD operations, validation, structured logging, and clean project architecture from scratch.

Building a vercel type system for SolixDB