Drew Tada

Drew is a backend infrastructure engineer with experience across blockchain infrastructure, including perps and margin systems, EVM rollup operations, and distributed systems. At Conduit, he managed 20+ customer mainnet and 100+ testnet blockchains, and led the first migration of a blockchain to RISC0 zk fraud proofs, securing over $170M TVL with zero downtime. Earlier, he operated as the lead engineer across multiple DeFi protocols, owning audits, deployments, incident response, and migrations for products that reached thousands of users and secured over $80M in TVL. He has also worked in the Urbit ecosystem on backend systems, virtualization tooling, on-chain identity, and capability-oriented security.