Case Study: DeFi Lending Protocol
How Executive Search Placed a Solidity Auditor in 12 Days
Client Overview
- Company Type: DeFi Protocol
- Team Size: ~25
- Location: LATAM / Global Async
- Hiring Model: Executive Search
Roles & Outcomes
- Role Hired: Internal Solidity Auditor
- Time-to-Hire: 12 days
- Result: 3 audits completed, $40K saved on audit fees
The Challenge
The team needed an in-house contract auditor to reduce costs and increase development velocity. External candidates lacked deep DeFi experience.
Our Solution
We sourced candidates from Clay, Twitter and Github:
- Targeted ex-Zellic and Trail of Bits auditors
- Filtered for Curve-style lending logic expertise
- Foundry and Slither toolchain required
We ran async screens and delivered a shortlist of 5 vetted candidates in 5 days.
The Result
- Hired in 12 days
- 3 full audits completed in Q1
- 2 critical bugs identified pre-deploy
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