Nick Yushkevich

Technical PM. I build infrastructure products and write about what I learn.

Toronto · 8+ years in blockchain infra · PM + Builder

Work

  • Figment · Senior Protocol Product Manager
    Jun 2025 – Present·Toronto

    Leading SOL Shred Streaming and a Transaction Landing API for low-latency block data access. Negotiated an integration projected at $16–44M annual profit potential. Delivered 8.61% compound APY vs. competitor average of 6.86% through MEV capture and block propagation optimization.

    SolanaStakingLow-latencyMEVInfrastructure
  • Riseplan Apps · Founder & Lead Developer
    May 2025 – Present·Toronto

    Built and launched Where's My Dough, a personal finance app aggregating real-time streams from Plaid and MX, with LLM pipelines for transaction categorization.

    Next.jsAIFintechPlaidMX0→1
  • QuickNode · Director of Product
    Feb 2023 – May 2025·Remote

    Built Streams from scratch: a real-time blockchain data push API. Solved reorg handling, block latency, and data correctness across EVM and Solana. Led pre-indexing strategy for 20+ EVM chains, hitting 50–90% margin improvements. Reduced customer integration time from weeks to hours.

    RPCData InfrastructureStreamsEVMSolana0→1
  • Figment · Senior Product Manager
    Dec 2021 – Feb 2023·Toronto

    Built a rewards tracking system that normalized data from multiple block explorers. Managed DataHub, a multi-chain API gateway across 20+ protocols, and led its migration strategy.

    StakingDataMulti-chainAPI
  • Chainstack · Product Manager
    Sep 2020 – Sep 2021·Remote

    Grew RPC product revenue 3x through volume pricing and features developers actually wanted. Launched managed node and RPC services for Polygon and BSC during the 2021 bull run.

    RPCInfrastructurePolygonBSCPricing
  • Provectus · Technical Account Manager
    Jul 2019 – Sep 2020·Remote

    Launched an AI product for COVID health and safety risk management, later adopted by AWS Marketplace and a major California pharmacy chain.

    AI/MLAWSHealthcareConsulting
  • Soramitsu · Product Manager
    Apr 2017 – Jul 2019·Tokyo (remote)

    Led development of Hyperledger Iroha with a global team of 15. Built and deployed Bakong, one of the first live CBDC implementations, which reached 15% national adoption in Cambodia. Co-authored a BFT consensus algorithm (published pre-print).

    CBDCPaymentsHyperledgerBFTBlockchain

Projects

Where's My DoughLive

Personal finance tracker for Canadians — aggregates Plaid and MX feeds, uses LLMs to decode and categorize raw transaction data.

Next.jsAIPlaidMXFintech
wheresmydough.com
TendLive

Plant care PWA — photo-based plant identification, AI-generated care plans, check-in tracking over time.

Next.jsPWAOpenRouterAI