Marcelo Morgado is a smart contract engineer with eight years of software experience and a deep focus on blockchain, DeFi integrations, and full‑stack systems. Based in Portugal, he currently contributes to multiple projects including Vesper Finance, Bloq, MetronomeDAO and Odyssey, blending production-grade Solidity development with backend and test-driven workflows. His open-source contributions include substantial work on the well-regarded studydefi/money-legos repository, where he implemented and tested protocol integrations such as Kyber and Aave, demonstrating pragmatic expertise in smart contract interfaces and TypeScript-based testing. Earlier roles span blockchain startups and traditional enterprise engineering—ranging from node and React Native apps to Java/Spring backends and infrastructure—giving him a rare mix of low-level ops, backend architecture and decentralized finance knowledge. He also studied Digital Currencies at the University of Nicosia, underscoring a formal grounding in crypto economics alongside hands-on protocol engineering.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Elementary School, Elementary School at Instituto ABEL
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
High School, High School at CELAE
DFIN-511 Digital Currencies, DFIN-511 Digital Currencies at University of Nicosia
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 36 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Marcelo contributed extensively to the `studydefi/money-legos` repository, focused on building and testing integrations with DeFi protocols. They implemented support for Kyber Network, including writing test cases to verify its functionality. The commits involve Solidity code changes to the Kyber Network Proxy interface and related TypeScript files for testing, demonstrating expertise in smart contract interactions and test-driven development in a DeFi context. Furthermore, they have been involved in the implementation of Aave test cases, covering lending and borrowing functionalities and staking in mStable.
Contributions:1 release, 524 commits, 222 PRs in 6 months
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Marcelo Morgado - Smart Contract Engineer at Odyssey