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Matteo Casonato

Product Engineer

๐Ÿ“ Venice, Italy

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Product Engineer focused on shipping consumer-facing crypto apps with strong UX. Co-founded an AI-driven product studio that shipped 20+ products across Farcaster, Base, and World. 5+ years building across the EVM ecosystem โ€” from DeFi interfaces to fully onchain games.

Work Preferences

Salary

EUR 90,000

Skills

Web3/Blockchain9/10
React9/10
TypeScript9/10
EVM Development8/10
DeFi Interfaces8/10
Next.js (8/10)Hardhat (7/10)JavaScript (7/10)wagmi (7/10)shadcn/ui (7/10)Smart Contracts (7/10)Solidity (7/10)Truffle (7/10)AI-driven Product Development (7/10)viem (7/10)Claude Code (7/10)ERC-20 (7/10)Ethers.js (7/10)Foundry (7/10)Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) (6/10)

Work Experience

Co-Founder & Product Engineer

Builders Garden

Sept 2024 โ€” Mar 2026

Co-founded an AI-driven product studio shipping at the edges of blockchain and AI. Shipped 7 mini apps (4 fully owned), peaking at 5,000 daily active users on Farville. Partnered with Coinbase, Ethereum Foundation, World Foundation, and XMTP on production use cases.

Frontend Developer

1Delta Labs

Sept 2023 โ€” Jan 2025

Built and maintained the frontend for 1delta.io โ€” unified infrastructure for borrowing, lending, and advanced positions across protocols and chains. Developed React-based trading interfaces integrating with a multitude of lending protocols, DEXs, and DEX aggregators. One of two core frontend devs in a super small team.

Technical Grants Evaluator

Web3 Foundation (Polkadot)

Nov 2022 โ€” Aug 2023

Evaluated Polkadot ecosystem grant deliveries across the grants and spec teams. Authored RFPs including 'Decentralized Security Marketplace' and 'Wallet Aggregator Library'. Reworked the specification and research websites (spec.polkadot.network).

SSI / Web3 Developer

Monokee

Jul 2022 โ€” Sept 2022

Deep dive into Self-Sovereign Identity primitives: DIDs, VCs, VPs, and ZKPs. Integrated SSI technologies with enterprise IAM solutions using the walt.id TypeScript SDK. Built smart contract integration interface for credential anchoring on-chain.

Education

University of Padua

BSc ยท Computer Science

? โ€“ 2022