Riccardo Montagnin
Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador
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Top SchoolRiccardo Montagnin is a seasoned technical product and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building high-performance blockchain systems, developer tools, and APIs. He has led engineering teams as CTO at Desmos Labs and MilkyWay and directed major rewrites of BigDipper while mentoring engineers to deliver production-quality code. Riccardo is an active open-source contributor across the Cosmos ecosystem—initializing Callisto for Big Dipper, improving staking behavior in cosmos-sdk, and enhancing Tendermint RPC support in cosmjs—demonstrating deep expertise in blockchain data modeling, backend systems, and test automation. Equally comfortable in DevOps and infrastructure work, he has orchestrated testnet migrations and CI for Desmos testnets, while earlier roles span mobile and API development. Based in Cuenca, Ecuador, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic product thinking and an appetite for bold experiences—he even enjoys skydiving.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea triennale Informatica, Laurea triennale Informatica at Università degli Studi di PadovaIstituto Tecnico Agrario "A. Trentin" - Indirizzo biologico
Italian, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (44)
json10
cosmos-sdk10
javascript10
postgresql10
net10
typescript10
bitcoin-testnet10
cicd10
cryptocurrency10
vuepress10
go10
front-end-development10
sql10
vue10
database-design10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
desmos-labs/morpheus
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Red pill or blue pill? - A collection of Desmos testnets
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Infrastructure Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Infrastructure EngineerContributions:262 reviews, 108 commits, 257 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Riccardo primarily contributed to testnet infrastructure and chain migration processes for the Desmos testnets. Their work focused on creating rollback procedures, modifying genesis files, and adding/updating data for various testnet versions (e.g., morpheus-4001, morpheus-13001, and morpheus-apollo-2). This also included setting up CI and modifying build scripts to validate the gentx files. The user demonstrated an understanding of the Desmos blockchain and associated infrastructure configuration.
bluetestnetsgenesispillvalidator
desmos-labs/primer
Dec 2019 - Mar 2021
An introduction on the Desmos world and how you can start playing with it
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 340 commits, 373 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Riccardo primarily worked on the front-end documentation of the project. They focused on updating the documentation by adding the phase descriptions and challenges, and adding and updating the menu. The user also refactored the vuepress config files to include logo, sidebar, and more.
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