Yos Riady
Founder & CTO
About the Author: Yos is the founder and CTO of Formo, where he leads product and engineering on the Formo data platform. He specializes in building analytics, attribution, and data tooling for DeFi applications.
Expertise & Industry Experience
Before founding Formo, Yos worked at Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle network used across onchain capital markets and decentralized finance (DeFi.)
Yos served as the technical lead and staff software engineer for Chainlink Staking, a protocol that reached $1B TVL on Ethereum mainnet. He has extensive experience in smart contract development, protocol design, and security audits.
During the hypergrowth period widely known as 'DeFi Summer', Yos helped scale the Chainlink platform into the dominant oracle for leading protocols such as Aave, Compound, Maker, Spark, Fluid, and many more.
His background includes extensive hands-on experience in:
Smart contract development
Smart contract audits and security
DeFi protocol engineering
High-scale infrastructure and developer tooling
Mission at Formo
There are many challenges at the intersection of blockchains and data. Formo aims to solve foundational problems around data, growth, and analytics in crypto.
At Formo, Yos applies his unique background into building the definitive analytics and attribution solution for the next generation of onchain apps, so they can focus on growth instead of wrangling data infrastructure.
Background & Education
Yos graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a degree in Computer Science.
Prior to crypto, he worked in traditional payments (PayPal) building enterprise payments APIs and a hyper-growth super-app (Grab) building large-scale systems and developer tools.
He jumped headfirst into crypto in 2018 and self-taught smart contract development, smart contract security, and worked on DeFi protocols before joining Chainlink.
Career Summary
Founder | Formo (Sep 2024 - Present)
Staff Software Engineer | Chainlink Labs (Jun 2020 - Sep 2024)
Software Engineer | PayPal, Grab, DeFi (pre-2020)