David Barinas
CEO & Co-Founder at Bloque
Bogota, RAP (Especial) Central, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Barinas is a founder-turned-engineering leader with 12 years building fintech and web3 products across Latin America, Europe, and the U.S., currently CEO and Co-Founder of Bloque driving web3 accessibility for LatAm. He combines hands-on systems work—Rust backend experience and senior full-stack roles—with repeated founder/CTO responsibilities at startups like Valiu and Instakiosks, translating product needs into production-grade code and teams. His background includes teaching computer science and cybersecurity early in his career, reflecting a practical emphasis on mentorship and secure engineering. A Y Combinator alumnus and self-described “Ninja” problem.fix() engineer, he balances developer craftsmanship with strategic company building. He’s comfortable shipping distributed, cross-border payments and blockchain tooling and often operates at the intersection of product, engineering, and regional market strategy. Notably, he has moved between deep technical contributor roles and executive leadership while keeping active in engineering, signaling rare dual fluency.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorEscuela Normal Superior Santiago de tunjaBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
English
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
S0c5/anabeljs
Feb 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:100 commits, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
S0c5/evilKeyboard
Nov 2015 - Jul 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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