Xavi Riba
Researcher at The Meaning Gap
Igualada, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolXavi Riba is a researcher and technologist with 11 years of experience at the crossroads of linguistics, phenomenology and decentralized technologies, currently leading research at The Meaning Gap from Igualada, Catalonia. He has founded and led governance-focused startups (CEO/Product Lead at Vocdoni) and built practical decentralized apps and tools—examples include IPFS-backed content storage and Ethereum-based commitment apps—demonstrating a blend of product vision and hands-on engineering. His background spans game and UI engineering (Unity3D, HaXe/Flash) through to C++ creative tools and front-end systems, giving him a rare mix of design sensibility and low-level technical fluency. Notably, he pairs academic curiosity about meaning and language with pragmatic implementations of decentralization, aiming to rethink participation and ownership in digital systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaHigh School, Technology, High School, Technology at IES Pere Vives Vich
Spanish, Catalan, English
Github Skills (48)
anonymous10
reward10
verifiable9
voting9
blockchain9
governance8
tyepscript8
decentralized-applications8
generative8
ethereum8
contract8
solidity8
camp8
pts7
javascript7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
universal-meaning-map/docs
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:44 commits, 28 pushes in 9 months
xavivives/RelativeCryptoPlayer
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:50 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 17 days
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