Ariel Gentile
Co-founder And Board Member at Verana
Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Summary
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Top SchoolAriel Gentile is an all-terrain engineer and co-founder with 11+ years building pragmatic, privacy-first products at the intersection of biomedical engineering and digital identity. He pairs low-level expertise in embedded systems, digital signal processing and Java Card with full-stack delivery skills—design, CI/CD, testing and documentation—across mobile, desktop, web backends and constrained hardware. As CTO and co-founder of startups and open-standards initiatives, he has driven user-centric decentralized identity work (including ledger/DID integrations in the openwallet/credo-ts ecosystem) and operationalized secure credential flows. His background includes medical device R&D compliant with regulatory standards and deep experience in smartcard and NFC ecosystems for telecom and identity. Ariel’s curiosity for how things work fuels a hands-on, product-minded approach to turning complex, privacy-sensitive requirements into usable systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Universidad FavaloroComputer Technician Computer Science, Computer Technician Computer Science at E.E.T. Nº6 'Chacabuco', Morón, Buenos AiresElectronics Engineer Electronics Engineering, Electronics Engineer Electronics Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Spanish, English, French
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
decentralized-identity10
typescripts10
hyperledger-indy10
typescript-types10
command-line-interface8
scripting7
script7
sh7
shell7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openwallet-foundation/credo-ts
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
Typescript framework for building decentralized identity and verifiable credential solutions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:489 reviews, 31 commits, 243 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ariel primarily contributed to the core functionalities of the `credo-ts` framework, focusing on ledger integration and DID management. Their work includes implementing the `registerPublicDid` functionality within the core ledger module, enabling public DID registration on a ledger. They also added shell scripts to facilitate DID management operations, demonstrating involvement in deployment and infrastructure aspects. Moreover, the user made updates to core modules and test files, and integrated with the network layer for DID management from the command line, contributing to the framework's backend logic and utilities.
decentralized-identifiersidpverifiable-credentialshyperledger-ariesjavascript
2060-io/credo-ts-indy-vdr-proxy
Mar 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:24 reviews, 34 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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