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Hunter Davis

Tech Lead · Senior Full Stack Engineer

Tech lead and full stack engineer with six years building products people use daily. I build AI systems that do real work inside developer workflows, and the platform infrastructure they run on. Most recently at Cyfrin, where I built Cygent, an AI security engineer for protocol teams, and most of Updraft, a developer education platform used by 250,000 engineers.

Experience 01
Cyfrin
Tech Lead · Sr. Full Stack Engineer
Remote · Nov 2023–Aug 2026
  • Built Cygent, an AI security engineer for protocol teams. It reads pull requests, finds exploit paths, checks that fixes still hold at release time, and filters bug bounty submissions. It runs inside GitHub, Slack and CI. Shipped to production users, now in live beta.
  • Wrote the autonomous agent framework behind it from scratch on top of the OpenAI, Anthropic and OpenRouter APIs. Spent most of that time on the parts that decide whether an AI tool gets used: false positive rates, latency budgets, context window management, and the eval harness that says whether a change actually helped.
  • Scaled Cyfrin Updraft from zero to 250,000 engineers as an early engineer, leading full stack work across the product.
  • Built the video pipeline, including a custom HLS player with adaptive quality switching, captions and per-course access control, serving thousands of concurrent learners a day.
  • Engineered subscriptions, trials and payments end to end, which became the core of how the platform makes money.
  • Built proctored certification, assessments, the jobs board, and the in-app assistant that helps learners when they get stuck.
  • Built a custom CLI for content management and shared UI libraries across a large monorepo.
  • Led architecture decisions, performance work and code review across the engineering org.
Helius
Developer Relations Lead
Remote · May 2023–Oct 2023
  • Built engineering-focused tooling including an RPC benchmark suite and an on-chain explorer, both adopted across the Solana developer community.
  • Led a team of 4 producing technical content and developer tools.
  • Organized community cohorts, live streams, and developer events.
Jivetel Communications
Software Engineer
Waterbury, CT · Jan 2020–May 2023
  • Progressed from resolving dashboard and billing bugs to owning full development of the core support dashboard used daily by the tech support team.
  • Worked with support and operations to find the slow parts of their day and build internal tooling around them.
Projects 02
Cygent
cygent.dev · live beta
  • An AI security engineer for protocol teams. Reads pull requests, finds exploit paths, verifies fixes at release time, and filters bug bounty submissions from inside GitHub, Slack and CI.
Battlechain Agent PVP
TypeScript · open source
  • An arena where people submit their own AI agents to compete against deployed contracts. Built to see how agents behave when the other side is also an agent.
Secretfence
Rust · open source
  • A small tool that keeps your .env out of an AI agent's context window.
Skills 03
Languages
TypeScript,JavaScript,Python,Go,Rust
AI & Agents
Custom agent frameworks,OpenAI / Anthropic / OpenRouter APIs,Eval harnesses,Context window management
Web
React,Next.js,Svelte,Vue,Tailwind CSS,Node.js
Data
PostgreSQL,MySQL,Redis
Infrastructure
AWS,GCP,Cloudflare,Vercel,Coolify,GitHub Actions,Monorepo and CLI tooling