Michael Morrell - Senior Software Engineer

About

Senior Software Engineer building products for DeFi and Solana. Founder of Cosmic Markets and OpenSerum.

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Solana DeFi market data provider delivering analytics, historical datasets, and production APIs.
50+ market data APIs covering Drift, Jupiter, Kamino, and more.
Built Cinder, an open-source trading terminal for Phoenix perpetuals with Level 3 order books and liquidations.

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OpenSerum Jun 2022 Dec 2022

Built a Solana DeFi market data product end-to-end: database, DevOps, marketing, BD, back-end APIs, front-end, and ETL/indexing.
Acquired by Solana.FM (Q4 2022).

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Developed cryptocurrency projects as a recipient of the Solana grant and the Project Serum grant.
Built software client libraries for multiple decentralized exchanges on Solana.
#1 volume DEX futures trader (taker) on BTC-PERP futures during November 2021 on Solana (Mango). Top 30 notional volume trader on FTX.US during late 2021 (spot margin).

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Blizzard Mar 2019 May 2021

High-performance Java services. Built read/write APIs handling over 100,000 requests/second at peaks.

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Blizzard Jun 2017 Mar 2019

Built and maintained backend services supporting Blizzard’s live game platforms.

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University of California, Irvine Class of 2017

Cosmic Markets — Solana DeFi analytics, historical datasets, and 50+ production APIs across Drift, Jupiter, Kamino, and more.
Cinder (GitHub) — Open-source trading terminal for Phoenix perpetuals: Level 3 books, charts, liquidations.
solanaj — Solana RPC client library written in Java.
OpenSerum — Solana market data platform acquired by Solana.FM.