Daniel Fernando Pellón

Software Engineer, Full stack developer, and Web 3 Blockchain developer

About me

Skilled Software Engineer with extensive experience in blockchain and Web3 development. Proven track record of building scalable applications and smart contracts, with a passion for open-source contributions and financial technologies.”

Currently

Chief Blockchain Officer at Minteo which provides fully backed and regulated LATAM stablecoins.

Nixpkgs mantainer of frame.sh web3 wallet package.

Specialized in

Software engineering, linux based technologies, backend and frontend development, blockchain and web3 development. Ample cryptocurrency and fintech experience.

Education

2016-2021 Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Eindhoven, NL

• BS Software Science

2015-2016 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Amsterdam, NL

• BS Chemical Engineering (unfinished)

2014-2015 Holland International Study Center. Amsterdam, NL

• Foundation year

2011-2014 Tecnológico de Monterrey. Hermosillo, México

• High school

Online courses

2023 Expert Solidity Bootcamp. Encode Club

2016 Financial Markets. Yale university

Work Experience

April 2023 - Present Minteo

• Fully backed and regulated LATAM stablecoins
• Role: Full stack and blockchain developer
• Worked on the system’s backend, frontend, and blockchain smart contract integrations.
• Wrote blockchain solidity smart contracts that received high security score from reputable external auditors
• [Technologies used]
• Typescript, Ethereum, Solana, React, PostgreSQL, Solidity, Foundry, Nix, Svelte, Graph Protocol

September 2022 - October 2022 Delegate.cash

• An interface for EIP-5639: Delegation Registry
• A registry enabling proving etherum asset ownership to third parties safely.
• Role: Web3 frontend developer
• [Technologies used]
• Svelte, Typescript, Ethersjs, Foundry, Nix

December 2021 - June 2022 PipilaDAO

• Building Xocolatl a decentralized, overcollaterized mexican peso stable coin
• A collaborative effort
• Role: Co-founder and Web3 developer
• [Technologies used]:
• Ethereum, IPFS, Graph Protocol, Nix
• Svelte, HTML/JS/CSS, Typescript

Septemer 2018 - October 2018; October 2019 - November 2019 Bepaalbak

• Built a smart voting trashcan for Studio Daan Wubben & Boyscout Design
• Featured in Dutch Design Week 2018 for Provincie Noord-Brabant
• Featured in Dutch Design Week 2019 for Embassy of Mobility
• Included an interactive video counting experience
• My role was full stack developer, handled
• [Technologies used]:
• Go, Arduino, PostgreSQL, Docker, The Things Network
• VueJS, HTML/CSS/JS, Typescript

Projects

2023 CanaryBay

• Blockchain Warrant Canary registry, where users or entities can implicitly convey a message, when explicit communication might not be feasible or possible.
• The whole registry and interface is completely permissionless, censorless, immutable and permanently available.
• [Technologies used]
• Solidity, BOS by NEAR, The Graph

2022 DegenBox

• Interactive blockchain game where users steal a box with loot from each other until it breaks and theres a single winner.
• Built during Eth Amsterdam Hackathon
• Winner of sponsor prices by Boba Network and EPNS
• [Technologies used]:
• Solidity, Svelte, HTML/CSS/JS, Ethers.js, EPNS

2020 GasDuck

• Receive push notifications when ethereum gas fees are low
• My own project, worked on the whole tech stack and ux design
• [Technologies used*]:
• Svelte, HTML/CSS/JS, Go, Redis, Docker, Firebase Cloud Messaging

2019 UnoDos3D

• An automatic quotation 3D printing service
• Focused on a simple and fast customer flow of three steps, upload model, adjust print parameters, and order in the same page.
• My own project, worked on the whole tech stack and ux design
• [Technologies used]:
• Go, VueJS, HTML/CSS/JS, PostgreSQL, Stripe

2019 MedMad

• Privacy-preserving healthcare data sharing system
• End software engineering project for Eindhoven University of Technology
• My role was overseeing devops, managing deployments and test pipelines, as well as filling gaps in other areas
• [Technologies used]:
• Python, Docker, React, PostgreSQL, Gitlab-CI

2017-2018 Tucanti

• A google finance alternative that supports cryptocurrencies
• My first real developent challenge
• My own idea project, worked with other students
• [Technologies used]:
• Go, Julia, PostgreSQL, Docker, Redis, GraphQL
• VueJS, HTML/CSS/JS, Typescript

Awards

2024

• The Graph Protocol Best use of subgraph grand prize (CanaryBay)
• NEAR Protocol Network 2nd prize (CanaryBay)

2022

• Boba Network Network 1st prize (DegenBox)
• EPNS Best creation of channel/Dapp (DegenBox)

Open source contributions

2024 github.com/balancer/frontend-v3

• feat: enable fx pools #972

2022 github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

• framesh: init at 0.5.0-beta.20 #175379

github.com/aave/aave-utilities

• fix: make user incentives data id unique #346

github.com/redstone-finance/redstone-node

• Add bitso source and change latam currencies symbols. PR #44

gitlab.com/clb1/svelte-ethers-store

• Added Types. PR #2

2019 github.com/Microsoft/vscode-postgresql

• Add arch linux runtime id. PR #27

2018 github.com/adrg/libvlc-go

• Add GetMediaPlayer to list player to get underlying media player. PR #15

github.com/logaretm/vee-validate

• Change component options value return type from string to any. PR #1554

Skills

Front-end

• HTML/CSS/JS, Typescript, Svelte, VueJS, React, REST, GraphQL

Back-end

• Go, Python, Julia, NodeJS, Java, PostgreSQL, Redis, Firebase Cloud Messaging

Dev-ops

• Linux, Docker, Nix, Gitlab-CI, Vim

Web3

• Ethers.js, IPFS, Graph Protocol, Solidity

IOT

• Arduino, The Things Network

Languages

Spanish, English