Gabriel De Arruda is a Substrate engineer with eight years of software experience and five years focused on Rust and blockchain systems, currently shaping protocol work at Tensora Group. As Co-Founder and CTO of InvArch he designed end-to-end architecture and led both blockchain and front-end teams, and earlier built core off-chain order book and TEE integrations at Polkadex. He contributes to the Polkadot ecosystem—adding parachain support and light-client integrations to the widely used polkadot-js/apps UI—and maintains an active Polkadot address. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Gabriel blends product-facing demo experience with deep systems engineering, favoring pragmatic integrations that bridge on-chain and off-chain components.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ensino Médio, Ensino Médio at Colegio Marista São Luís
Bachelor's degree (Incomplete) Computer Science, Bachelor's degree (Incomplete) Computer Science at Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul
Basic Polkadot/Substrate UI for interacting with a Polkadot and Substrate node. This is the main user-facing application, allowing access to all features available on Substrate chains.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:12 commits, 13 PRs, 14 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel's primary contribution involved adding and modifying UI components within the Polkadot.js apps repository. They focused on integrating support for various parachains and testnets, including Polkadex, InvArch Tinkernet, and GM Parachain. Their work includes updating logos, colors, and endpoints for different networks, as well as implementing light client integrations.
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