Daniel Fernandez
Founder At Mimic.fi
Argentina
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Fernandez is a founder and blockchain engineer with 14 years of software experience, currently leading Mimic.fi and a founding member of POAP. He combines deep technical expertise in cryptography, mechanism design and core blockchain codebases with hands-on smart contract and protocol development. Daniel built the first blockchain aggregator exchange that processed over $1M in trades, developed the first DEX for TRON, and contributed backend improvements to the high-profile Balancer V2 monorepo. His work spans founding startups, shipping production DeFi infrastructure, and contributing to open-source primitives such as swap and batchSwap functionality. An early Bitcoin and Ethereum adopter, he pairs product-first entrepreneurship with low-level protocol knowledge and practical testing strategies. Based in Argentina, he often bridges research-grade cryptography with pragmatic engineering to deliver deployable decentralized systems.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Marshfield Senior High SchoolSoftware Engineering Computer Science, Software Engineering Computer Science at University of Buenos Aires
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
decentralized-finance10
smart-contracts10
solidity10
ethereum10
blockchain10
testing10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
balancer/balancer-v2-monorepo
Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
Balancer V2 Monorepo
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:84 reviews, 86 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on implementing and improving core functionalities within the Balancer V2 Monorepo. They added and managed swap fees within the Vault, updating tests to reflect those changes. They also worked on enabling token receipt and external flashswaps within the batchSwap functionality, and provided a mock for the trading engine to integrate token transfers. Further contributions include the implementation of interfaces, libraries, and testing strategies for the different components.
monorepoethereumsoliditydefibalancer
dmf7z/log-exp-solidity
Aug 2020 - Jul 2023
Library of logarithmic and exponential functions
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
mathexponentiallogarithmicjulia
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