Matias Garcia
Director Of Software Development at BitPay, Inc.
Tucumán, Argentina
Summary
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Top SchoolMatias Garcia is a seasoned software leader with 12+ years of experience building and scaling consumer and infrastructure products, currently directing development at BitPay where he helped grow a non-custodial crypto wallet from zero to 5 million hosted wallets. He blends hands-on engineering across front-end and back-end stacks with product and team leadership, managing distributed teams in the US and Argentina. An active open-source contributor to prominent Bitcoin projects (including Bitcoin-ABC and Bitcore), he has a track record of improving wallet reliability, node services, and blockchain tooling. Prior roles as CTO, founder and engineering lead show a pattern of launching high-traffic platforms across LATAM and running mission-critical systems. Trained in computer science and nuclear engineering and holder of an MBA, he brings analytical rigor and strategic planning to fast-moving crypto and product initiatives.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Business Administration, MBA, Business Administration at Escuela de Negocios (EDDE)Nuclear Engineer, Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Engineer, Nuclear Engineering at Instituto BalseiroComputer Science, Computer Science at Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
English
Stackoverflow
59reputation
3kreached
1answer
4questions
Github Skills (37)
exec10
javascript10
bitcoin-abc10
c-language10
back-end-development10
testing10
bitcoin10
leveldb10
user-interface10
bitcoins10
bitcore10
execve10
exp10
rpc10
blockchain10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bitpay/bitcore-lib
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
A pure and powerful JavaScript Bitcoin library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 3 commits, 81 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Matias primarily contributed to the bitcore-lib repository by fixing bugs and improving the code base. Their work included correcting variable names in the logger, removing duplicate `require` statements, and handling potential errors by calling the callback function. The user also added and modified features in `RpcClient.js`. The user additionally updated tests and fixed code style.
javascriptcryptocurrencybitcoinbitcoin-javascript
bitpay/bitcore-node
Feb 2016 - Apr 2018
Extensible full node using Bitcore
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 11 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matias's commits focus on enhancing the address service within the Bitcore node project. They added an address index to the mempool and introduced noBalance options to API methods. The user also implemented tests for the mempool address index. Furthermore, they made formatting and other code adjustments, as well as fixing and adapting the tests in regtests.
bitcorefull-nodecryptocurrencynodejsbitcoin
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