Jorge Izquierdo is a seasoned blockchain engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building developer-focused decentralized systems and founding multiple startups, most recently Tuyo. As a cofounder of Aragon and former CEO/CTO of Aragon One, he led design and implementation of core on-chain governance primitives and full-stack client experiences for decentralized organizations. His open-source contributions include Solidity frameworks and widely used libraries like OpenZeppelin, where he improved smart-contract test coverage and added token vesting functionality. Comfortable spanning backend protocol design to frontend onboarding flows, he combines product leadership with hands-on engineering. Based in Spain and famously contactable via Twitter rather than LinkedIn, he brings a pragmatic, community-driven approach to building tokenized governance infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
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(Aragon 1) Reference implementation for aragonOS: a Solidity framework for building complex dApps and protocols
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 releases, 969 commits, 225 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jorge is developing functionalities related to creating and managing a smart contract system built on the AragonOS framework. They're building a company configuration factory with the ability to set up stock and create tokenized governance structures. The code primarily uses Solidity to define new types of contracts for creating, managing and interacting with various digital asset types. They are heavily involved in defining the core building blocks of a decentralized company and related infrastructure.
(Aragon 1) Aragon apps developed by Aragon Core Devs (smart contracts + webapps)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:1 review, 452 commits, 138 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jorge's commits primarily involve modifications to Solidity smart contracts, which included adding and modifying finance, vault, and voting application logic. They also made changes to deployment scripts and test files, demonstrating a full-stack approach within the Aragon framework. These updates reflect contributions to multiple Aragon applications, as well as test and lint improvements.
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