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Founding Software Engineer

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Founding Engineer at Blaze (YC S24), 6 years shipping end-to-end fintech and payments products. I ship across the

agentic AI stack, payment rail integrations, and platform infrastructure powering our stablecoin cross-border payments

product. Lead the AI CFO agent tool ecosystem + NLP eval harness that gates every agent release, and author multi-week

integration migration plans across Bitso, Coinflow, Bridge, Paytently, and a Dakota MSB stack. Solo-founded TinyOps: a

public MCP server on npm and an AI-native guardrail engine for engineering teams,

~180K TypeScript lines with 2,700+

tests at 100%. Bias toward correctness, compliance, and durable delivery.

Experience: 6 years

Yearly salary: $90,000

Hourly rate: $40

Nationality: 🇺🇸 United States

Residency: 🇲🇽 Mexico

Experience

Frontend Engineer and UI/UX Designer

Strangelove Ventures Crypto | Blockchain infrastructure and investment firm

2022 - 2022

Redesigned core user interfaces using React, TypeScript, and Chakra UI, driving 35% increase in user engagement and reducing drop-off by 25%. Optimized performance through Lighthouse auditing and analytics instrumentation, cutting page load from 4.2s to 0.4s (90% faster). Collaborated with the backend team to integrate Sanity CMS, reducing update deployment time by 60%.

Lead Frontend Engineer and Designer

Gaugecash | Fintech company

2021 - 2025

Architected and developed user-facing interfaces with Next.js, TypeScript, and Chakra UI, driving 30% increase in traffic and 15% improvement in user trust metrics. Enhanced digital wallet functionality by integrating smart contracts and Web3 services using Ethers.js and Wagmi, achieving 50% faster transaction speeds and 35% higher user satisfaction. Led code review processes and established scalable design patterns, mentoring 2 junior developers and maintaining 95+ Lighthouse performance scores. Implemented comprehensive testing strategy using Jest and React Testing Library, cutting production bugs by 40%.

UX Designer and Frontend Developer

Libertum | Digital finance platform

2021 - 2022

Led end-to-end design and development of a responsive web and mobile app in React and Flutter, achieving 25% increase in user engagement in the first quarter. Implemented code splitting and lazy loading, cutting load times by 40% and improving Core Web Vitals. Ran user research with 50+ participants, informing UX iterations that reduced support tickets by 20%.

Skills

drizzle

nestjs

nextjs

postgres

react

react-native

typescript

web3js

full-stack

english

spanish

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