Enrique Piqueras is a senior software and research engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance ML infrastructure, web platforms, and blockchain systems, currently working on JAX engagements at Google DeepMind. He combines deep front-end expertise—having been a core contributor to WordPress Gutenberg and a React-focused engineer on Drizzle—with low-latency systems work, browser tooling, and Solidity-based decentralized protocols. As a founding engineer at multiple startups he shipped novel sync engines, CRDT services, and realtime browser UIs that cut development time dramatically, and at Kleros he helped bootstrap large-scale decentralized identity and token systems. Enrique is equally comfortable refactoring PHP/CSS for massive open-source projects and designing performant hooks for Ethereum integrations, revealing a rare cross-domain fluency that accelerates both product and research work.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Fullstack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Fullstack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code Camp
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Santa Monica College
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 214 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Enrique focused on enhancing the Gutenberg Block Editor for WordPress. They implemented new features, specifically related to the Customizer and widget blocks, involving both front-end and back-end aspects. Their contributions included refactoring PHP code, optimizing CSS selectors, and integrating features such as live preview and saving capabilities, as well as adding features for multiple entity saving. The user also worked on adding enhancements to the front-end side of the Query block and implementing its basic functionalities.
Contributions summary:Enrique primarily contributed to the development of React hooks within the `drizzle-react` library. Their work focused on adding and improving functionalities such as `useCacheCall`, `useCacheEvents`, and `useCacheSend` for interacting with Ethereum smart contracts. They also implemented state management and added performance improvements to the hooks. The user's commits demonstrate a strong understanding of React, state management, and integrating with Ethereum blockchain data.
reactdappethereumblockchaindapp-ui
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