e Elias Moreno
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Senior Software Engineer · Austin, TX

Elias Moreno

I build the infrastructure that sits between Solana and the products people actually use. Five years of production systems in Rust across the ecosystem: on-chain programs and smart-contract tooling, full-stack API ownership, and the AWS that keeps it all running.

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§ 01  ·  Career

A working record

Five years of shipping infrastructure. Scroll through the things I’ve built and the teams I’ve built them with.

  1. Agentic practice · research

    Sabbatical

    Rest, then reinvention.

    Taking intentional time between roles to rest, touch grass, and figure out what being a senior software engineer actually looks like in the age of agentic coding. The short version: the job has changed, and I’m changing with it.

    • Building for fun. Small, real software for people I know personally. Speed-to-value and taste, not headcount or OKRs.
    • Agentic manager in training. Treating coding agents as teammates instead of autocomplete. Writing clear briefs, reviewing diffs with a high bar, and stepping in only where human judgment actually matters.
    • Practitioner depth. Claude Code harnessing, skills, slash commands, subagents, hooks, and the habits required to make them consistently useful in a real workflow instead of a demo.
    • Sharpening taste. Reading more. Writing less code by hand, shipping more outcomes. Figuring out which parts of “being an engineer” are still load-bearing in 2026 and which are legacy habits worth unlearning.
    • Claude Code
    • Agentic Workflows
    • Skills
    • Subagents
    • Harnessing
    • Research

  2. Senior Software Engineer

    Squads Labs

    Stablecoin infrastructure for the Solana ecosystem.

    Built and maintained Grid, a Rust REST API over the Smart Account Program that served as Squads’ stablecoin infrastructure layer for customers including Coinbase, Privy, and Crossmint. Grid exposed TradFi primitives (payment intents, standing orders, spending limits, virtual accounts, KYC/KYB, terms acceptance) alongside on-chain primitives (multi-sig proposals, passkey / P256 WebAuthn auth, session keys, external signers). Integrated with Bridge for fiat rails (ACH, Wire, SEPA, SWIFT), multiple key-management providers (Privy, Turnkey, Dynamic) with automatic failover, and Jupiter for trading.

    • Indexer. Built a real-time on-chain indexer from scratch on Geyser / Yellowstone gRPC, replacing a legacy system that couldn’t keep pace. Indexed four programs (Smart Account Program, SPL Token, Token-2022, Squads v4) into Postgres and Redis.
    • API. Primary owner of the Grid API end-to-end: endpoints, middleware, schema design and migrations, and caching strategy.
    • CLI. Built an internal Grid CLI from scratch to dogfood the API across local, staging, and production environments, tightening the dev loop for the whole team. Designed it to be agent-friendly so Claude Code sessions could drive it directly, letting me run endpoint testing and debugging agentically instead of hand-rolling curl commands.
    • Infrastructure. One of the main owners of AWS infra via Terraform: ECS / Fargate, Aurora, ElastiCache, API Gateway, Lambda, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch. Stood up Datadog for tracing and monitoring. CI/CD on GitHub Actions. Local dev on Docker Compose and Tilt.
    • On-chain. Contributed to the open-source External Signature Program: session keys with expiry enforcement, signer execution schemes, passkey verification, and security hardening (re-entrancy prevention, payload discriminators, checked math). Helped prepare the codebase for the OtterSec audit.
    • Rust
    • Diesel
    • Postgres
    • Redis
    • Geyser
    • RPC
    • Terraform
    • AWS
    • Datadog
    • Bridge
    • Jupiter
    • Privy · Turnkey · Dynamic
    • Passkeys

  3. CTO

    Elmnts

    A B&J-incubated RWA platform for accredited oil investors.

    • Sole technical lead. Built the full investor platform from zero: onboarding, SPV deposit infrastructure, and automated dividend distribution, giving accredited investors a clean path into oil investments.
    • TypeScript
    • Postgres
    • SPV Infrastructure
    • Dividend Automation
    • KYC / AML

  4. Founding Engineer

    Clockwork

    Automation infrastructure for Solana programs.

    • First engineer. Won the Solana Riptide Hackathon with Nick Garfield, then built the automation layer: 20+ on-chain primitives in Rust and TypeScript that let other Solana programs schedule and trigger work without human intervention.
    • Owned ecosystem adoption. Led 15+ integrations as principal technical liaison, including Helium, who used Clockwork to automate reward distribution in real time. Built the indexing infrastructure and developer tooling that made those integrations possible.
    • Rust
    • TypeScript
    • Solana
    • Anchor
    • On-chain Indexing
    • Developer Tooling

  5. B.S. Computer Science · Minor in Mathematics

    Texas Tech University

    3.8 GPA · the foundations before the infra.

    • Coursework in Algorithms, Data Structures, Programming Languages, Operating Systems, Distributed Computing, Calculus 1–3, and Linear Algebra.
    • Algorithms
    • Distributed Systems
    • Linear Algebra
    • Operating Systems

§ 02  ·  Consulting

Also taking short engagements

I take on focused consulting work between full-time roles, for teams that need senior help on indexers, Rust APIs, Solana integrations, or the AWS underneath. If that sounds like your team, the fastest way to reach me is Telegram.

Say hello on Telegram↗ @Eliascm17

§ 03  ·  Get in touch

Let’s build something.

Telegram is fastest, I read it every day. Email works too, I answer both.