Gonzalo Montiel
Blockchain Engineer at Moonsong Labs
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolGonzalo Montiel is a Barcelona-based blockchain engineer with nine years of full-stack software experience and a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Buenos Aires. He has led blockchain development at Pendulum, contributed front-end chain integrations to the widely used polkadot-js/apps, and currently builds on Moonbeam at Moonsong Labs. Comfortable across Node.js, React, and blockchain RPC/endpoints, he bridges product-facing UI work with deep protocol integrations. His background spans startups and enterprise teams where he combined hands-on development with team leadership and migration/integration systems for e-commerce platforms. Known for shipping pragmatic solutions, he often surfaces subtle UX and configuration details—like chain branding and RPC handling—that make new networks truly reachable to users.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Grado en Ingeniería Ingeniería Informática, Grado en Ingeniería Ingeniería Informática at University of Buenos Aires
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Github Skills (11)
configuration-management10
substrate10
javascript10
polkadot-js10
polkadot10
ui-design10
blockchain10
typescript-types9
react9
typescript9
typescripts9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
polkadot-js/apps
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
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
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 7 commits, 10 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Gonzalo primarily focused on integrating new chains and associated information, such as logos, colors, and RPC endpoints, into the Polkadot-JS apps UI. They added Amplitude and Pendulum chains to the Kusama and Rococo testnets, updating configuration files for logos, colors, and endpoints. The user also made changes to the UI configuration to handle changes to the RPC endpoints and updated the UI to be able to reach the new Amplitude and Pendulum chains.
substrateblockchainwalletchainssubstrate-node
pendulum-chain/pendulum-webapp
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
Repository for the testnet prototype of the Pendulum web application
Contributions:12 reviews, 24 PRs, 58 pushes in 7 months
pendulumweb-application
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