Luis Cuende
Cofounder & President at CitizenX
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis Cuende is a seasoned entrepreneur and software leader with 14 years building impactful web3 and open-source products, currently serving as Cofounder & President of CitizenX. He cofounded Aragon, helping scale DAOs to manage over $20B in assets, and has deep front-end experience improving UX for major Ethereum tools like MetaMask and Aragon client/apps. His career blends hands-on UI engineering with executive roles—previously CEO of Aragon One and CTO/ founder at startups like Stampery and Unpatent—focused on decentralization, identity, and anti-patent crowdsourcing. Based in the United States, he started coding professionally as a teenager and has repeatedly turned developer-first thinking into mission-driven companies. Notably, his open-source contributions show a consistent attention to user-facing details (copy, progress indicators, onboarding flows) that materially improve blockchain usability. He brings a rare mix of product intuition, UI craftsmanship, and long-term commitment to decentralised governance.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Life, Life at The world
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
css10
ui-design10
ethereum10
react10
daap9
blockchain8
chrome7
extension-functions7
extension-methods7
c-extension7
qtwebkit6
nodejs6
firefox6
gtk6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aragon/client
Nov 2016 - Sep 2019
(Aragon 1) Create and manage decentralized organizations on Ethereum.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 335 commits, 63 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Luis primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the Aragon client application. Their commits demonstrate a focus on improving copy, such as changing references to "MetaMask" to "your Ethereum provider," and adding the DAO name and other relevant DAO context to the home app. They implemented styling changes, removed unnecessary elements, added an Ethereum loading animation, and contributed to an app center placeholder.
ipfsdappethereuminfurablockchain
aragon/aragon-apps
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
(Aragon 1) Aragon apps developed by Aragon Core Devs (smart contracts + webapps)
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 21 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Luis primarily focused on improving the user interface and copy within the Aragon voting application. Their contributions included fixing typos, modifying vote action copy, and updating UI components related to vote summaries, statuses, and progress bars. The commits demonstrate a focus on refining the user experience through iterative changes to text and visual elements within the voting module of the application. These changes were made to improve clarity and address issues reported within the project's issue tracker.
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