Rico Zuñiga
AI Career Accelerator Program Participant
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRico Zuñiga is a seasoned technology and product leader with two decades of software engineering roots and 11 years of focused experience scaling blockchain and AI-enabled products. As Co-Founder and former CTO of SparkPoint, he grew engineering from 1 to 50+, architected secure smart contracts and non-custodial wallets that processed 344K+ on-chain transactions, and helped drive the platform to a $191M peak market cap. He pairs hands-on engineering—Solidity, CI/CD, high-availability payment gateways—with strategic product and business development that generated recurring revenue and passed rigorous security audits. Currently an Amii AI Career Accelerator participant and Queen’s Master of Management in AI student, he’s bridging academic ML rigor with industry deployments and ethics-savvy project practice. Notably, Rico combines startup founder grit with deep experience in remote team-building and operationalizing decentralized finance systems for tens of thousands of users.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Certificate, Artificial Intelligence, Postgraduate Certificate, Artificial Intelligence at George Brown PolytechnicBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Bicol UniversityMaster of Management, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Management, Artificial Intelligence at Smith School of Business at Queen's UniversityMaster of Management, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Management, Artificial Intelligence at Queen's UniversityStartup School, Startup School at Y Combinator
French, bikol, English, Filipino
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Github Skills (34)
chain10
ethereum10
blockchain10
cryptocurrency9
crypto8
cryptography8
machine-learning7
deep-learning6
decentraland5
pytorch5
deep-neural-networks4
jquery4
elixir3
javascript3
threejs3
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bicolit/bicolit.github.io
Aug 2017 - Feb 2020
Bicol IT Website
Contributions:2 releases, 40 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 6 months
ricoz/tetromino
Aug 2018 - Oct 2019
Source code for the Tetromino Game Tutorial on SitePoint.com
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 1 month
sitepointtetrominogametutorial-game
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