Diego Romero
Blockchain Developer at ChainSafe Systems
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Romero is a Blockchain Developer and seasoned software engineer with 14 years building high-throughput, distributed systems across fintech and e-commerce. Currently contributing to the Gossamer Polkadot host at ChainSafe and teaching distributed systems and programming at Universidad Católica del Uruguay, he blends hands-on protocol work with academic rigor. His background includes designing mission-critical microservices and search architectures at Mercado Libre, PedidosYa and Coinbase, frequently using Go, Java, Kotlin and gRPC for scalable, low-latency platforms. Diego has led teams and migrations from legacy stacks to modern service-oriented architectures, and has deep experience with messaging, caching, observability and fault-tolerant patterns. He pairs practical production experience with pedagogy—building curriculum on topics like security, resilience and blockchain—so he can both architect systems and explain them clearly. Based in Montevideo, he’s an open-source-minded engineer focused on protocol-level blockchain work and real-world, production-grade distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Universidad Católica del Uruguay 'Dámaso Antonio Larranaga'
Spanish, English
Github Skills (77)
polkadot10
p2p10
golang10
substrate10
blockchain10
javascript9
browser9
database9
postgresql9
sap9
cordova9
react-native9
orm9
oracle9
cumulus9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sebastianlujan/webteleshopping
Oct 2012 - Oct 2012
Contributions:18 commits in 6 days
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