Summary
Ailton Júnior is an indie founder and full-stack Web3 engineer with 8 years of experience turning ideas into shipped products across on-chain games, DeFi, and AI-driven agents. He blends hands-on Solidity smart contract work with React/Node backend and frontend engineering, favoring speed, leverage, and pragmatic iteration over purely theoretical design. As a co-founder and founding engineer at Gemstone Labs and previously the lead technologist on Brazil’s largest Web3 game, he’s delivered token mechanics, NFT staking, indexing protocols, and blockchain APIs. His recent focus sits at the intersection of autonomous AI agents and crypto-native systems, exploring novel product opportunities rather than single-technology depth. Comfortable owning architecture from smart contracts to user interfaces, he repeatedly moves projects from prototype to production under resource constraints. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he pairs strong academic foundations in computer science with a maker’s drive to ship and learn quickly.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at UFOP - Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Technical High School Diploma, Informatics, Technical High School Diploma, Informatics at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Minas Gerais - Campus Avançado Itabirito
Portuguese, English, Spanish