Head of Engineering
Madrid, Spain
Head of Engineering at Intensity Labs building cross-chain intent protocols. Former DeFi/MEV Engineer at Keyrock with expertise in Rust, Solidity, and multi-chain systems (EVM, Solana, Aptos, Sui). Background in HFT, market-making, MEV strategies, and low-latency infrastructure. MSc Computer Engineering from Complutense University of Madrid.
Intensity Labs
May 2024 — Present
Created from scratch a cross-chain intent protocol with solvers, MEV-resistant for traders, spanning Sui, Aptos, Solana, EVMs, Ripple, Monad, and Bitcoin. Built low-latency infrastructure in Rust for high-throughput operations. Operates at thousands of transactions per day and millions of USD in daily volume. Manages a 6+ person engineering team; owns hiring, roadmap, execution, and reliability.
Keyrock
Mar 2022 — May 2024
Created strategies from 0 to 1 using Rust (working directly on Reth codebase) and Solidity. Designed MEV, LP, and proprietary strategies on Rust, Solidity (EVM), Move (Aptos), and Anchor (Solana). Built low-latency execution systems generating +2M USD in profits. Deployed contracts managing +40M USD TVL.
BlackForest
Feb 2021 — Mar 2022
Architected HFT & market-making infrastructure for centralized exchange arbitrage across 30+ CEXs. Transitioned infrastructure from C++ to Rust. Applied deep learning models (LSTMs, Transformers) for HFT prediction and arbitrage identification. Achieved ~800% annualized ROI under constrained liquidity.
Bank of Spain
Sept 2020 — Feb 2021
Analyzed virtual currency cashflows for reporting & compliance. Applied ML methods including Random Forests, SVM, k-means, and PCA for anomaly detection and transaction pattern classification.
MSc · Computer Engineering
2017 – 2021