Blas Rodriguez Irizar
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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SeniorBlas Irizar is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance backend systems, trustless cross-chain infrastructure, and market-facing trading platforms. He has led technical efforts at multiple crypto and finance projects—shipping production bridges, a Solana-based prediction market that processed $900M in six months, and ZK rollup work at ConsenSys—while also founding analytics and trading startups. A prolific open-source contributor, Blas has improved core Rust projects like Tokio and NEAR Protocol, adding deterministic TestDB iterators and ed25519 verification to critical codepaths. Based in Lisbon, he now runs ARIA Intel, where he combines engineering, market signal research, and product delivery—once building an AI agent that recovered $267K for a clinic in four months. His background in mathematics and finance informs a data-driven approach to uncovering non-obvious public signals across real estate, freight, and financial markets.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (30)
asynchronous10
async10
trie10
testing10
nearprotocol10
networking10
blockchain10
rust10
concurrency10
databases9
cryptography9
sql-database9
database9
relational-databases9
webassembly8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
near/nearcore
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Reference client for NEAR Protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:76 reviews, 7 commits, 16 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Blas primarily focused on enhancing the NEAR Protocol's core store functionalities. They implemented a deterministic iterator for the TestDB, improving data retrieval consistency. Additionally, the user added the `ed25519_verify` host function, including unit tests and cost estimations, and refactored `TrieIterator` to use `seek_prefix`. They also contributed to state view functionalities by adding proof. These efforts indicate contributions to core backend logic and thorough testing practices.
nearprotocolblockchainrustwebassembly
tokio-rs/tokio
Jul 2020 - Aug 2021
A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 23 commits, 28 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Blas contributed to the Tokio project, focusing on improvements to asynchronous programming and runtime features. Their work included enhancing comments for clarity within the `time` module and addressing unreachable code warnings in the `select!` macro. Further contributions involved documenting remote killing for child processes and fixing a typo related to synchronization primitives. They also implemented drop functionality for mock objects in tests.
asynchronousnetworkingrust
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