William Bodell

About William Bodell

Though it has been a long journey, I have completed a career overhaul to become a software developer focused on building Ethereum smart contracts. Beginning as an architecture student, after two years in a three year program at Columbia University GSAPP, in 2015 I discovered Ethereum and realized I was meant to be a developer and, eventually, an entrepreneur. My first foray into the blockchain space was a whitepaper describing how Ethereum could be used to reinvent the community-supported agriculture (CSA) model, returning its focus to driving engagement in local food economies. The concept, which I called FarmShare, was very well received in the fledgling industry, but after the infamous DAO attack in 2016 I realized it was too soon for such a project to be successful, and I didn\'t have the necessary skills to build it. I spent the summer of \'16 working with the FOAM team, building their initial MVP app with the CTO as a mentor, before returning to Columbia to complete my degree. After graduating I started an internship with ConsenSys, which led to a full-time role, albeit as a brand designer. I did not enjoy the role, and I wanted to become a developer, so I was not too disappointed when the market crashed and my team was laid off in 2018, giving me the opportunity to reinvent myself. The following year I worked in retail while preparing myself to go back to school for a CS degree, which I began in 2020 at IIT.Though at first I was unsure about the blockchain industry, by 2021 I knew I had unfinished business in Web3. I found an opportunity to work on blockchain security research with Prof. Yue Duan at IIT, and began a study on upgradeable smart contracts which would eventually be accepted for publication at USENIX Security \'23. After submitting that I began another upgradeability-related project, this time a differential fuzzing tool for smart contracts. This caught the attention of security auditing firm Trail of Bits, who hired me as a spring associate to continue the project. The resulting tool can be found at https://github.com/crytic/diffusc.Throughout my journey I have had success in several Web3 hackathons, starting with Consensus \'17 where I was on the grand-prize winning team BlockBox. In \'22 I was the lead smart contract dev on the FarmKudos team at ETHDenver, which made it to the final round. At ETHWaterloo \'23 I was the lead full-stack dev for the Habitat team, winning $2k in sponsor prizes. I have also completed the Ethernaut and DamnVulnerableDeFi security CTFs. Now I\'m looking for opportunities to continue my new career in Web3!

Experience

1. Sr Smart Contract Engineer

   Dkoda Labs

   Aug 2024 — Present · New York, NY, US

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Bachelor of Science, Architecture

  2009 — 2013

• Illinois Institute of Technology

  Master of Science in Computer Science - MSCS

• Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation

  Master of Architecture (M.Arch.), Architecture

  2013 — 2017

Skills

• Indesign
• Bootstrap
• Photoshop
• Sketchup
• Autocad
• Html
• Architectural Design
• Grasshopper
• Prototyping
• Laser Cutting
• Illustrator
• 3d Studio Max
• Javascript
• Revit
• Solidity
• Model Making
• 3d Printing
• Parametric Design
• Web3.js
• Rhino
• Ethereum
• Smart Contracts
• Architectural Drawings
• Angularjs
• Entrepreneurship