Lucas Benitez
Chief Technology Officer at Ducat
Grenada
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Benitez is a pragmatic CTO and blockchain polymath with nine years of experience building privacy-focused crypto platforms and financial primitives, currently leading engineering at Ducat to create bitcoin-native stablecoins. He combines deep hands-on experience—from Solidity fixes and Docker orchestration in the Baseline Protocol to rollups and privacy engineering—with startup leadership across roles as CTO, platform architect, and former CEO. Comfortable shipping production systems and cryptography-driven traceability solutions, he has repeatedly turned academic AI/CS training into practical, auditable infrastructure. Based in Grenada, Lucas brings a contrarian, product-first approach to money and finance, and his open-source contributions reflect real-world interoperability work rather than academic prototypes.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) Computer Science, Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) Computer Science at Brunel University of London
Spanish, English, French
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Github Skills (18)
docker10
dockers10
nodejs10
protocols10
solidity9
ethereum9
smart-contracts9
react6
css6
material-ui6
zksnark3
typescript-types3
typescripts3
zkp3
zk3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum-oasis-op/baseline
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
The Baseline Protocol is an open source initiative that combines advances in cryptography, messaging, and distributed ledger technology to enable confidential and complex coordination between enterprises while keeping data in systems of record. This repo serves as the main repo for the Baseline Protocol, containing core packages, examples, and reference implementations.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 76 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Lucas's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and stability of the Baseline Protocol examples, particularly within the `bri-1/base-example` directory. They implemented Jetstream support, addressed compilation issues in Solidity smart contracts, and updated the codebase to programmatically use Docker IPs. Additionally, the user made improvements to testing procedures and adapted the application to run correctly within the context of a Docker environment.
ethereumprotocolservesdistributed-ledgerreactjs
GoatFishes/GoatFish-Core
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Not production ready - Capital at risk. A Bitcoin leverage trading and backtesting platform that connects to popular Bitcoin exchanges. It is written in JavaScript and runs on Node.js.
Contributions:87 commits, 23 PRs, 62 pushes in 2 months
ethereumproduction-readyriskexchangesfinance
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