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Fernando Rodriguez Hervias

Founding Engineer / Web3 Developer

Dubai

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High-agency developer with a successful business background. Deeply passionate about code optimization and the intersection of capital and technology. Experienced in EVM smart contracts, Rust MEV bots, full-stack Web3 development, and AI-augmented workflows. Founded multiple ventures and led engineering at a $3.9M-funded Web3 studio.

Work Preferences

Salary

USD 150,000

Skills

AI-augmented development10/10
Alloy / tokio (Rust)10/10
Docker / CI/CD / AWS10/10
Envio (indexing)10/10
ERC-7540 / ERC-462610/10
EVM / Smart Contracts (10/10)Flashbots / Base Flashblocks (10/10)Foundry (10/10)GraphQL / Hasura (10/10)MEV / Arbitrage (10/10)MongoDB (10/10)Node.js (10/10)PostgreSQL (10/10)React / Next.js (10/10)Rust (10/10)Solidity (10/10)Tailwind CSS (10/10)TypeScript (10/10)Uniswap v2/v3/v4 (10/10)Wagmi / Viem (10/10)

Work Experience

Solo Developer

MEV Arbitrage Bot (Personal Project)

Sept 2025 โ€” May 2026

Built an atomic arbitrage searcher on Base with Rust. Profitable cycles found off-chain using BFS. Detects profitable paths in under a millisecond by mirroring Uniswap math and ticks off-chain; supports v2/v3/v4 venues. Ingests Flashblocks in real time; deployed a Base Reth node on AWS to accelerate simulations.

Founding Engineer

HydrogenLabs

May 2024 โ€” Present

Lead developer on Magma and Rover, LSTs on Monad and Botanix. Built frontend with Next.js, React, Wagmi, GraphQL, Tailwind. Selected Envio, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Node.js for indexer/backend. Used Foundry for smart contract development, testing, and deployment; designed ERC-7540 async vault and LidoV3-style vault. Led research for Magma's MEV client design.

Senior Software Engineer

Agora

Nov 2023 โ€” Apr 2024

Built Optimism's governance UI at vote.optimism.io using TypeScript, Next.js, React, Tailwind, and PostgreSQL.

Founder

PragmaLayer

Aug 2023 โ€” Jul 2025

Founded a Web3 studio serving clients including fxhash, Coinbase, and Agora. Contributed to fxhash's new website, $FXH token, and artcoins. Stack: Hasura, PostgreSQL, Next.js, React.

Founder

OpenBeats

Oct 2022 โ€” Jul 2023

Founded a music streaming app where every playlist is a token. Built using Foundry, Solidity, React, and Next.js.

Founder

RentalPlus

May 2019 โ€” May 2022

Bootstrapped a car rental business to โ‚ฌ3M annual revenue. Built the booking and pricing engine on the MERN stack.

CTO

OcasionPlus

Jul 2018 โ€” May 2022

Migrated legacy PHP website to MongoDB, Express, React, Next.js, Node.js stack (~2.5M total visits/month). Led a tech team of 10 and architected UX based on business needs and marketing performance.

Education

Ironhack

Master ยท Web Development

2017 โ€“ 2017

ICADE

Double Bachelor's Degree ยท Business Administration and Law

2013 โ€“ 2018