Independent engineering assurance
RigorLayer provides independent code audits, human-in-the-loop code and architecture review, and bug bounty validation for teams that need experienced technical judgment before software reaches production.
Senior engineering oversight. Human-in-the-loop analysis. Findings validated before delivery.
Services / 01
We focus on finding problems that automated checks, rushed reviews, and fast-moving development processes can miss.
Find correctness, reliability, architecture, and security issues before they become production problems.
Reviews can cover backend systems, distributed systems, protocol logic, concurrency, APIs, smart contracts, fault tolerance, test coverage, and operational risks.
A senior engineer reviews code produced or heavily modified with AI coding agents.
The engineer checks AI-assisted code for incorrect assumptions, subtle logic errors, architectural drift, weak tests, unnecessary complexity, duplicated logic, security issues, and code that looks plausible but does not behave correctly.
Separate real vulnerabilities from noise.
We reproduce reports, validate exploitability, assess severity, identify duplicates and false positives, and provide a clear technical assessment for engineering and security teams.
Review important technical decisions before implementation becomes expensive to change.
We assess system boundaries, failure modes, distributed-system assumptions, data flows, protocol behavior, reliability, observability, and implementation risk.
Implementation support when review alone is not enough.
We can take on focused remediation, backend, infrastructure, protocol, and technically demanding implementation work where deep understanding of the reviewed system matters.
Approach / 02
RigorLayer uses AI agents as engineering multipliers for repository analysis, specification review, test generation, threat exploration, issue discovery, and parallel investigation.
AI increases breadth and speed. It does not replace engineering responsibility.
Every engagement is reviewed through human technical judgment, explicit reasoning about correctness and failure modes, and production-oriented engineering discipline.
We look for interactions between architecture, implementation, failure modes, tests, operations, and real system behavior — not just isolated static-analysis warnings.
Multiple analysis paths can run in parallel, but findings must survive human review and technical validation before they reach the client.
Findings should explain what is wrong, why it matters, how confident we are, and what should happen next.
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Share the repository, relevant documentation, architecture, and the questions or risks you care about.
We analyze the codebase using senior engineering review supported by AI-assisted investigation and tooling.
Potential findings are reproduced, challenged, prioritized, and checked for real impact.
You receive concise findings with severity, reasoning, evidence, and practical remediation guidance.
If useful, we can review fixes or selectively help implement them.
Founder / 04
Founder & Principal Engineer
RigorLayer was founded by Andrei Smirnov, a Staff-level protocol and distributed-systems engineer with more than 20 years of software engineering experience.
His background includes engineering roles at Obol Network / DV Labs, Chainlink, Deutsche Bank, Microsoft, Dell/EMC, and Motorola, spanning distributed systems, Ethereum infrastructure, backend engineering, consensus algorithms, smart contracts, observability, cryptography, and technical leadership.
Recent work includes protocol architecture, Ethereum validator infrastructure, HotStuff and QBFT consensus, smart contracts, production observability, incident-response tooling, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
Andrei remains directly involved in the technical work and final review of every engagement.
20+ years in software engineering
Staff-level protocol & distributed systems
Ethereum, consensus & smart contracts
Backend, infrastructure & reliability
Contact / 05
Tell us what you are building, what you want reviewed, and what concerns you most. We will reply with an initial assessment and suggest an appropriate scope.
