Fernando Huertas
Senior Director Of Engineering EVM at ioBuilders
Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolFernando Huertas is a business-minded technology executive with over two decades of experience building scalable architectures and leading engineering organizations across Blockchain, Fintech, Travel and Ticketing. As a founder and former CTO/Co-CEO who scaled ioBuilders from 0 to 100 employees and delivered DLT-based e-money platforms and bank JVs, he blends product strategy, regulatory-savvy fintech execution, and hands-on protocol work. He has driven multimillion-euro growth and cost savings repeatedly—leading a 120-engineer transformation that tripled bookings and re-architecting platforms to save €1M+ in infrastructure and licensing. Now Senior Director of Engineering for EVM at Hashgraph, he’s focused on high-performance EVM-compatible chains while continuing fractional CTO work across Web3, GenAI and event-driven systems. An active open-source contributor, he’s pushed resilience and event-broadcasting features to projects like Eventeum, reflecting a penchant for backend reliability and distributed systems. Notably, he pairs deep technical depth (microservices, DDD, Kubernetes, AWS) with a track record of mentoring junior hires into senior leaders and creating autonomous engineering cultures.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PDD Executive Development Program, PDD Executive Development Program at IESE Business SchoolComputer Science Engineer Management, Computer Science Engineer Management at Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca
English, French, German
Github Skills (12)
rabbitmq10
javas10
java10
spring-boot10
blockchain9
jtest9
junit9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
devops7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
eventeum/eventeum
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
A resilient Ethereum event listener that bridges your smart contract events and backend microservices
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 61 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily contributed to the backend of the Eventeum project, as evidenced by changes to Java test files, and core service logic. Their work involved adding transaction event broadcasting functionality and configuring routing keys for event broadcasting, as well as modifying retry mechanisms for enhanced system resilience. Additionally, the user worked on setting up cookie-based load balancer support.
ethereumresilientcontractevent-drivenevent-listener
IoBuilders/fundable-token
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 months
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