Summary
Fernando Trouw is a Lead Developer with 9 years of hands‑on experience building production-grade blockchain and full‑stack systems, currently based in Eindhoven. He blends deep smart contract expertise (Solidity, Soroban/Rust) with scalable backend and AI-driven platforms, having architected event‑driven pipelines that produced 50,000+ articles and cut content costs by half. Fernando has led DeFi and cooperative stablecoin designs, implemented cross-contract communication and anti‑gaming epoch models, and shipped client-facing DApps and integrations across Stellar, Linea and Ethereum ecosystems. He pairs pragmatic engineering—CI/CD, autoscaling worker queues, pgvector RAG search—with careful testing and cost-optimization, and has a track record of turning research ideas into funded products and plugins (e.g., WordPress CADE). With a background in environmental science and urban research, he brings a systems-thinking perspective to complex, distributed architectures and economic incentive design.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Environmental Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Environmental Science at Avans University of Applied Sciences
Minor Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, Minor Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology at Wageningen University & Research