Miguel Hervás
Chief Technology Officer at Neutral Farming
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMiguel Hervás is a CTO and seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building blockchain-native systems, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling from San Francisco. He led core engineering at Centrifuge—designing a P2P document consensus layer, smart contracts for DIDs and NFT foundations, and a purpose-built Substrate proof-of-stake chain—while also contributing UI and RPC client work to prominent open-source projects like polkadot-js/apps and go-substrate-rpc-client. Prior roles include architecting large-scale orchestration and cost-saving cloud migrations at Taulia, where he implemented Kubernetes/OpenShift, CI/CD pipelines, and secrets management to shave millions off infrastructure spend. Comfortable bridging product, partners, and operations, he mentors teams and presents technical work publicly, blending hands-on systems programming (Golang, Rust) with pragmatic cloud-native leadership. An MSc in Modern Digital Communication Systems underpins his low-level precision work, such as improving RPC event handling and time encoding in blockchain clients—details that reveal a focus on reliability as much as innovation.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Modern Digital Communication Systems, Master of Science (MSc) Modern Digital Communication Systems at University of SussexMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Spanish, English
Github Skills (17)
substrate10
javascript10
ui-design10
polkadot-js10
go10
rpc10
blockchain10
golang10
polkadot10
react10
typescripts8
wallet8
typescript-types8
typescript8
altair7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
centrifuge/go-substrate-rpc-client
Nov 2019 - Jul 2022
Substrate RPC client for go aka GSRPC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 43 reviews, 35 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily contributed to the implementation of core features related to the Substrate RPC client for Go. Their work included adding new event types, such as `EventTreasuryDeposit`, `EventImOnlineAllGood`, and other related event handling. The user also focused on refining the code to match milliseconds encoding for the `Moment` type, ensuring precision, and addressing issues around extrinsic signatures. They also made changes to support or revert specific Substrate network versions.
golangrpcsubstraterpc-clientblockchain
polkadot-js/apps
Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
Basic Polkadot/Substrate UI for interacting with a Polkadot and Substrate node. This is the main user-facing application, allowing access to all features available on Substrate chains.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 13 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily contributed to the configuration and development of the user interface for the Polkadot/Substrate application. They worked on adding and updating endpoints and types related to various parachains, especially those within the Centrifuge and Altair ecosystems. Their commits also included UI updates, incorporating new logos, adjusting chain configurations, and updating dependencies, showcasing a focus on maintaining and improving the application's functionality and user experience.
substrateblockchainwalletchainssubstrate-node
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