Hi, I'm Nikola
I'm a frontend engineer who cares about clean architecture and well-structured code. In 2022 I found my place in Web3, building production frontends for DeFi protocols. Most notably, I built the entire frontend for a liquid staking platform that reached $10M in TVL.
About Me
Nikola Skadric
With 4 years of production React and TypeScript experience, I've owned frontend architecture end-to-end across 4 DeFi products, from stack selection and contract integration to deployment. I also published an open-source TypeScript SDK and contributed to backend work with Python, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. Won 1st place at ETHGlobal Brussels 2024 for a cross-chain staking platform. I lead a full architectural refactoring at Nura. Outside of work I go to ETH CC and ETHGlobal hackathons.
Education
Information Technology School "Belgrade"
Computer Science
Graduated
Experience
Frontend Architect - Nura
Full architectural refactoring, feature-first modules, theme system, code splitting.
2026 – Present
Solo Frontend Developer - DcentraLab @ d402
MCP marketplace with crypto payments. Published open-source TypeScript SDK.
2025 – 2026
Lead Frontend Developer - DcentraLab @ Traia
AI trading strategy platform. React Flow diagrams, DEX swap flows.
2025 – 2026
Frontend Developer - DcentraLab @ Hord
ETH liquid staking platform. Built from zero to $10M in TVL.
2023 – 2026
Frontend Developer - DcentraLab @ Web3Index
AI-powered Web3 directory with 2000+ companies. Real-time search, optimistic UI.
2022 – 2026
Technical Stack
Selected Work
A few projects I've shipped
Hord
Owned the frontend from zero to launch for an ETH liquid staking protocol that peaked at $10M TVL. Built the contract abstraction layer, multi-step withdrawal flows with on-chain cooldown logic, multi-chain reward aggregation across Ethereum and Arbitrum, and Lido stETH/wstETH integration. Live pricing via Uniswap V3.
d402
Solo frontend engineer on a marketplace where AI agents discover and pay for APIs on-chain via HTTP 402. Published @dcentralab/d402-client, an open-source TypeScript SDK that handles the full payment flow with EIP-712 signing in a single call. Also built the API-spec-to-MCP converter and contributed to the Python backend.
Traia
Lead frontend on an AI-powered platform for building automated trading strategies. Built a system that turns prompts into interactive, editable strategy diagrams with React Flow and Dagre, wired to a chat UI so users refine strategies in conversation. Also shipped a multi-token DEX swap flow and token-gated access via on-chain balance checks. Currently in development.
Web3Index
Built the real-time AI search experience for a directory of 2000+ Web3 projects, streaming results over WebSocket with TanStack Query caching. Introduced optimistic UI updates, an advanced Jotai filter system synced to URL params, and led the migration to @opennextjs/cloudflare on Cloudflare Workers.
Hackathons & Achievements
ETHGlobal Brussels '24
Built a cross-chain staking platform on Near protocol. Competed against 50+ teams over a 36-hour sprint.
June 2024
BEST Design Week '23
Led a week-long "Web Design Advanced" workshop at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences (FON) in Belgrade. Taught a class of 20 students as part of the 13th BEST Design Week, organized by BEST Belgrade.
May 2023
ETHGlobal Cannes '25
Hackathon participant
ETH CC
Conference attendee
Tech4Health '22
Web3 pharma store
Frontend Masters
JS Hard Parts, Deep JS Foundations