Teams at Aave Labs

Lead global operations for a growing financial technology business, including operational strategy, scalable processes, customer experience, complaints management, vendor performance, KPIs, automation, resilience, and regulatory oversight. The role serves as PCF-42 Chief Operating Officer and CF-8 Complaints Adjudicator for an Irish regulated entity, partnering with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, Security, and Support while building and developing the Operations organization.

Lead the technical direction and hands-on development of Push, a regulated non-custodial financial product. Design resilient backend services for payment initiation, transaction tracking, settlement, exceptions, notifications, partner integrations, blockchain execution, and customer wallets. Establish secure architecture, testing, observability, incident response, deployment, and on-call standards while leading engineers through complex, high-impact work and partnering with product, compliance, legal, security, operations, and finance teams.

Conduct attacker-driven security research on Aave protocol changes, smart contracts, integrations, and critical dependencies. Review architecture and code before audits or deployment, identify exploitable protocol risks, contribute to AI-assisted security tooling, and translate findings into invariants, testing, monitoring, and incident-response improvements. Collaborate with engineers, auditors, and monitoring teams while communicating risk, severity, uncertainty, and trade-offs clearly.