Gustavo Somerstein
Director Of Engineering at Taiko Labs
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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Top SchoolGustavo Somerstein is a Director of Engineering with 10 years of experience building secure, scalable systems across web2 and web3, currently scaling Ethereum infrastructure at Taiko Labs. He moved from backend and architecture roles in banking and startups—where he led cloud migrations, CI/CD, Kubernetes and DevOps transformations—to open-source and blockchain security work at OpenZeppelin. Gustavo blends hands-on development (NodeJS, Rust, serverless stacks) with leadership experience as VP of Engineering and technical lead, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on building dependable distributed systems. He is passionate about decentralized, transparent systems and has applied that conviction to runtime templates, contract libraries and on-chain monitoring projects. Based in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, he combines product-oriented roadmap collaboration with deep technical stewardship. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often bridges legacy modernization and cutting-edge cryptography-focused engineering.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería, Computational Science, Ingeniería, Computational Science at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (65)
security10
smart-contracts10
solidity10
openzeppelin10
starknet10
economy10
cairo10
ethereum10
blockchain10
protect10
substrate8
polkadot7
cybersecurity7
angular7
database7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ggonzalez94/TP1-SoII
Apr 2017 - Jun 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch, 5 issues in 7 years 3 months
OpenZeppelin/minimal-rollup
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
A minimal based rollup implementation that is easy to understand and extend
Contributions:85 reviews, 21 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 month
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