Gorka Ludlow
DOMOS Member at Karma Digital
Ciudad de la Costa, Canelones, Uruguay
Summary
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Top SchoolGorka Ludlow is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building product-focused teams and shipping scalable web and AI-enabled systems from startup to production. He has repeatedly led cross-functional engineering organizations—ranging from CTO roles to technical lead positions—delivering complex launches like Lilypad’s Arbitrum beta and infrastructure for training frontier AI at Scale AI. Hands-on across the stack, Gorka’s roots in front-end engineering include notable open-source contributions to the Aragon client and apps, improving UX for decentralized organizations on Ethereum. He blends pragmatic product thinking with strong engineering practices (CI/CD, observability, testing) and has a knack for turning subject-matter expertise into automatable systems, exemplified by a Verifier DSL and functional verifier framework he architected. Based in Uruguay, he pairs entrepreneurial experience (multiple co-founded ventures) with a passion for useful abstractions and mentoring teams to multiply their impact.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Engineering, Engineer's degree, Computer Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
responsive-design10
aragon10
javascript10
user-interface10
styled-components10
front-end-development10
component-design10
react10
ui-design9
html9
css9
ethereum7
blockchain5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aragon/client
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
(Aragon 1) Create and manage decentralized organizations on Ethereum.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:112 commits, 144 PRs, 639 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Gorka primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Aragon client, specifically focused on implementing UI components and managing the user interface. They added a new deprecated DAO banner component, implementing modal popups using React context. Their work involved React, styled-components, and integrating with the Aragon UI framework, demonstrating an understanding of front-end architecture and component design. These changes aimed to improve user experience by providing warnings about deprecated features within the application.
ipfsdappethereuminfurablockchain
aragon/aragon-apps
Nov 2018 - Nov 2019
(Aragon 1) Aragon apps developed by Aragon Core Devs (smart contracts + webapps)
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:60 commits, 60 PRs, 294 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Gorka primarily contributed to the user interface of the Aragon apps, focusing on the voting card and related components. Their commits involved adding IDs and descriptions, and enhancing the voting app's responsiveness by introducing new UI elements such as menu buttons and responsive behaviors. Furthermore, the user implemented features like the 'New Vote' button and adapted the Finance app's mobile interface.
aragon-appethereumblockchainweb3devs
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