Diego Ferrer
Solutions Engineer at Celestia Labs
United States
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Top SchoolDiego Ferrer is a Solutions Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building blockchain and web3 systems, currently helping developers at Celestia Labs bridge application logic with modular consensus. He cut his teeth as a smart contract engineer at Tessera and contributed to the Qtum ecosystem—authoring adapters and a Go SDK that simplified local transaction creation and signing. Diego blends backend expertise (GraphQL, Go, Node/Express) with product-focused delivery, having managed engineering workflows and built onboarding and SMTP business logic for user-centered platforms. He has internship experience at Microsoft and a history of shipping open-source tooling that supports developer productivity. Passionate about Web 3.0, he combines rapid learning with collaborative leadership to turn experimental smart contract ideas into production-ready components. Based in the United States and trained in computer science at the University of Florida, he brings both protocol-level knowledge and practical integration experience.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Florida
Spanish, English
Github Skills (69)
devrel10
fuel10
ethereum10
blockchain10
solidity9
pos9
plutus9
cosmos9
internet-computer9
dfinity9
documentation9
sdk8
chain8
golang8
smart-contracts8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
celestiaorg/nitro
Aug 2023 - Feb 2025
Nitro goes vroom and fixes everything
Contributions:21 releases, 4 reviews, 10 PRs in 1 year 6 months
celestiaorg/nitro-das-celestia
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Celestia Data Availability Provider for the Arbitrum Nitro stack
Contributions:8 releases, 2 reviews, 4 PRs in 8 months
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