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I'm Fernando, a Lisbon-based full stack engineer with nine years in software engineering and five years in blockchain. I enjoy building robust, scalable systems and delivering polished user experiences, from smart contract integrations to responsive front-end interfaces. Throughout my career I’ve founded multiple ventures and shipped production-ready products in DeFi, NFTs, and developer tools. I thrive turning ambitious ideas into reliable platforms, whether it’s MEV tooling, governance UIs, or MERN/Next.js stacks that ship in the wild.…I'm Fernando, a Lisbon-based full stack engineer with nine years in software engineering and five years in blockchain. I enjoy building robust, scalable systems and delivering polished user experiences, from smart contract integrations to responsive front-end interfaces. Throughout my career I’ve founded multiple ventures and shipped production-ready products in DeFi, NFTs, and developer tools. I thrive turning ambitious ideas into reliable platforms, whether it’s MEV tooling, governance UIs, or MERN/Next.js stacks that ship in the wild.

Fernando Rodriguez Hervias

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Front-End Developer, +2

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I'm Fernando, a Lisbon-based full stack engineer with nine years in software engineering and five years in blockchain. I enjoy building robust, scalable systems and delivering polished user experiences, from smart contract integrations to responsive front-end interfaces. Throughout my career I’ve founded multiple ventures and shipped production-ready products in DeFi, NFTs, and developer tools. I thrive turning ambitious ideas into reliable platforms, whether it’s MEV tooling, governance UIs, or MERN/Next.js stacks that ship in the wild.…I'm Fernando, a Lisbon-based full stack engineer with nine years in software engineering and five years in blockchain. I enjoy building robust, scalable systems and delivering polished user experiences, from smart contract integrations to responsive front-end interfaces. Throughout my career I’ve founded multiple ventures and shipped production-ready products in DeFi, NFTs, and developer tools. I thrive turning ambitious ideas into reliable platforms, whether it’s MEV tooling, governance UIs, or MERN/Next.js stacks that ship in the wild.

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I’m Fernando, a Lisbon-based full stack engineer with nine years in software engineering and five years in blockchain. I enjoy building robust, scalable systems and delivering polished user experiences, from smart contract integrations to responsive front-end interfaces.

Throughout my career I’ve founded multiple ventures and shipped production-ready products in DeFi, NFTs, and developer tools. I thrive turning ambitious ideas into reliable platforms, whether it’s MEV tooling, governance UIs, or MERN/Next.js stacks that ship in the wild.

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Work Experience

Senior Full Stack Engineer at Hydrogen Labs

May 1, 2024 - Present

Led development of Magma on Monad LST (staking precompile integration) and Rover; shipped v1/v2 contracts; designed MEV-focused client logic; enabled 10M+ on-chain events in near real-time using Envio, PostgreSQL, and TypeScript.

Senior Software Engineer at Agora

November 1, 2023 - April 30, 2024

Built Optimism’s governance UI—the canonical voting interface for on-chain governance—using Next.js, React, and PostgreSQL.

Founder at PragmaLayer

August 1, 2023 - July 31, 2025

Founded a Web3 studio working across DeFi, NFTs, and developer tools; shipped token deployments and tooling for the space; led design and product direction.

Founder at OpenBeats

October 1, 2022 - July 31, 2023

Established an NFT/Music tech project; shipped an ERC-1155 smart-contract-based asset set; delivered a Spotify-like music player across web/desktop/mobile with backend integration.

Founder at RentalPlus

May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2022

Bootstrapped a Spanish car rental business to €3M annual revenue; scaled to 2,000 customers across 75 offices with a 50-vehicle fleet; built end-to-end MERN stack with payments integration.

CTO at Occasion Plus

July 1, 2018 - May 31, 2022

Migrated legacy PHP site to MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js); scaled to millions of visits; built a MERN-based booking and pricing engine; led a 10-person team.