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Fullstack Web3 Developer with a passion for building innovative solutions. Strong frontend focus. Master Degree in History of Science, Bachelor in Computer Science. Freelancing and building for creatives since 2005. Throwing black clay espresso cups at the pottery wheel in my free time.
I build web3 applications, from creative landing pages to complex dapps.
I curate software, helping grants and bounties to be successful by selecting the most promising applications.
I research UX, helping teams to understand their users and improve their products and find the best solutions.
I manage projects, spending time with teams to help them achieve their goals.
Product-first web3: clear UX, strong engineering, measurable outcomes.
I get hands-on with teams to turn concepts into shipped dapps
I joined the Open Source Grants Evaluator program to help evaluate and fund open source projects that are building on the Polkadot ecosystem of up to $30.000.
As one of the best bounties in Polkadot, we are responsible for ensuring good UX in Polkadot and have started many successful initiatives. My focus is DevEx, Hackathons, Grants and helping with all things UX.
As a student of the Polkadot Blockchain Academy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I learned alot about the Polkadot ecosystem, studied RUST and ink! smart contracts, and built custom runtimes and pallets. It was before there was a dApp track and I was 1 of 2 building frontends at that time :)
When WordPress switched to react based Gutenberg, I was one of the first to build a slider plugin within the native editor. It has ~400k downloads today (discontinued).