Authors
Yos Riady
Founder
TLDR: Yos Riady is the founder and CTO of Formo, helping DeFi teams make analytics and attribution simple. Prior to Formo, he was a staff software engineer and tech lead at Chainlink Labs. He helped scale Chainlink into the industry-standard oracle for leading DeFi protocols such as Aave, Morpho, and Spark. He has been in crypto since 2018, working on protocol design, smart contract development, data engineering, and security.
About the Author
Yos is the founder and CTO of Formo, where he leads product and engineering on the Formo data platform. Today, he is focused on building analytics, attribution, and data tooling for DeFi applications.
Expertise & Industry Experience
Before starting Formo, Yos worked at Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle network used across onchain capital markets and decentralized finance (DeFi.)
Yos contributed as a staff software engineer and the technical lead for Chainlink Staking, a protocol that reached $1B TVL on Ethereum mainnet. With over a decade in software, he has extensive experience in smart contract development, DeFi protocol design, smart contract security audits, and data engineering.
During the hypergrowth period widely known as DeFi Summer, he helped scale Chainlink into the dominant oracle for leading protocols such as Aave, Morpho, Maker, Spark, Fluid, and 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)