Hi, I'm phil!

I am a security researcher, focused on smart contract and blockchain security.

Contact

I am a Security Researcher at Certora, and a former Resident in the Cantina Fellowship.

You can find me on:

• Github @philbugcatcher
• X @philbugcatcher

Professional background

I am an expert in corporate finance and a former management consultant. I have over 7 years of professional experience advising CFOs of large corporations on strategy and corporate finance topics.

As a SR, I support global finance's move onchain by working on one of the greatest barriers to widespread defi adoption: lacking security.

Find below a list of my recent competitions results:

Competitions as a security researcher

Project	Date	Ranking	Highlights
Ammalgam - the first DLEX	Jul/2025	🥈 2nd	4 solo findings
Primev rewards - rewards distributor	Jun/2025	🏆 1st	100% coverage
Jigsaw - onchain collateralized stablecoin	May/2025	🥈 2nd
Eigenlayer - restaking protocol	Mar/2025	🎖️ 4th
Reserve - token portfolio management	Jan/2025	🥉 3rd	1st place for the low severity pot
Collar - options-based liquidation-free lending	Dec/2024	🥉 3rd	Retained as a long term private SR
StakeUp - RWA-backed yield-bearing stablecoin	Oct/2024	🏆 1st	2 solo findings
Primev - settling of cryptographic commitments	Oct/2024	🎖️ 4th	1 solo finding
Royco Protocol - incentivized actions markets	Sep/2024	21st

Competitions as a judge

Project	Date
Pike - lending protocol and self pegging assets	Jul/2025
Stability DAO - yield generating vaults	May/2025
Alchemix - self-repaying lending protocol	May/2025
Liquity BOLD - WETH/LST collateralized stablecoin	Apr/2025
Velvet Capital - onchain portfolio management	Apr/2025
Metropolis - managed liquidity vaults	Apr/2025
BadgerDAO - slippage-free eBTC exchange	Mar/2025
Ethereum Foundation/ Pectra - Pectra upgrade for Ethereum protocol	Feb/2025
Napier Finance - yield tokenization platform	Feb/2025
Dahlia - lending protocol integrated with Royco	Feb/2025
Infrared - liquid staking for Berachain	Jan/2025
Whetstone/ doppler - onchain token launcher integrated with Uniswap	Jan/2025