Gonzalo Balabasquer
Blockchain Engineer at MakerDAO
Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Summary
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Top SchoolGonzalo Balabasquer is a blockchain engineer with a decade of software experience, best known for contributing Solidity smart contract work to MakerDAO’s core Dai Stablecoin System. He combines hands-on Ethereum development (Solidity, Web3) with team leadership and project management experience from roles ranging from senior PHP developer to general manager. At MakerDAO he upgraded critical contracts, improved price feeds and gas efficiency, and worked on authorization and DSR integrations—demonstrating both deep protocol knowledge and pragmatic engineering. Now freelancing from Buenos Aires, he focuses on building secure, maintainable blockchain systems while mentoring teams and improving processes. Comfortable spanning technical and people management responsibilities, he aims to lead teams that deliver efficient, people-oriented results.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
System Engineer, Inglés, System Engineer, Inglés at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Github Skills (5)
smart-contracts10
solidity10
f10
ethereum10
gas-optimization8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
makerdao/dss
Aug 2018 - Oct 2022
Dai Stablecoin System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:163 reviews, 166 commits, 119 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Gonzalo primarily contributed to the `dss` repository, a Dai Stablecoin System, by making several modifications to smart contracts written in Solidity. Their work included upgrading the dss repository, implementing and modifying price feed contracts (`poke.sol`), and adapting interfaces. These changes involved increasing gas limits, adjusting precision, and integrating new features such as DSR. They also made changes related to authorization and access control, as well as refactoring and adapting existing components.
ethereumblockchaindaisoliditycryptocurrency
makerdao/dss-deploy-scripts
Jan 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:71 releases, 11 reviews, 403 commits in 3 years 4 months
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