Matías Falcone

matias.falcone@gmail.com

Senior Tech Lead and Backend Engineer with 18+ years of experience in IT development and production support in the Banking Industry. Experience in start-ups and larger technology companies. Demonstrated involvement in the Blockchain industry.

Experience

Full Stack Engineer

Animoca Brands

Architecting an interoperable gaming ecosystem bridging Web2 and Web3, focused on asset provenance and composability. Defined technical standards for cross-game asset interoperability, reputation systems, and game integrations. Collaborated with multiple game studios and automotive brands to design user systems, APIs, and on-chain schemas. Led the development of core infrastructure, including authentication layers, metadata registries, and reward mechanisms.

January 2025 - Present

Full Stack Engineer

Grease Monkey Games

Developed and maintained high-performance, scalable and secure web applications using React, Nuxt and Node.js. Designed, implemented, and maintained smart contracts on multiple blockchains with focus on interoperability. Deployed and managed applications on AWS and Heroku, utilising resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and Route 53 among others.

February 2023 - December 2024

Blockchain Engineer

Parsl

Responsible for researching, designing, implementing and supporting all blockchain-based solutions using Algorand.

March 2022 - November 2022

Founder

ALDEA

Strong leader in Cardano, promoting the collaboration and growth of the Hispanic community through ALDEA DAO.

January 2021 - Present

Founder & Operator

Falcon Cardano Stakepool

Project Manager and Head Developer. Experience with NFT development on Cardano blockchain.

October 2020 - Present

Tech Lead

Santander Tecnología

Work plan generation, backlog handling and acceptance criteria definition. Reporting, metrics. Designated project resources, monitored progress and kept Stakeholders informed. Maintain and extend current applications. Responsible for integration and business logic. Cobol Senior developer.

July 2010 - February 2020

Business Analyst

IBM

Direct interaction with final users on-site. Analysis and technical documentation generation. Reduced the costs of importing by 20% with the design of a completely new process life cycle.

September 2008 - June 2010

Programmer Analyst

Hewlett-Packard

Analysed, designed and developed programs and interactions in COBOL/CICS with DB2. Diminished the batch processing time by 10% troubleshooting more than 50 productive issues.

May 2007 - September 2009

Education

Albright Institute of Business and Language

Advanced Diploma
Leadership and Management
December 2023 - January 2024

Albright Institute of Business and Language

Diploma
Leadership and Management
March 2021 - April 2022

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional

Bachelor's Degree
Information Technology - Computer Systems Analysis
March 2006 - July 2019

Skills

Programming Languages, Tools & Frameworks


Favorite Stack


Workflow
  • Agile Development & Scrum
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Mobile-First, Responsive Design
  • Cross Browser Testing & Debugging

Portfolio

ALDEA NFT

The best place for your NFTs
A Cardano powered Marketplace to trade NFTs while contributing to the DAO Treasury and helping to fund community proposals. Check it out with this link.


Onidex

Introducing DeFi 2.0
The first redefined decentralised trading platform and liquidity protocol on Ethereum, Polygon and Binance Smart Chain. Check it out with this link.


ALDEA

The Latin America DAO
ALDEA seeks to enable change in Latin America by creating an ecosystem that will allow people to come together to communicate, self-govern, produce and trade with no third parties nor central entities that may exercise any type of censorship in these interactions. Check it out with this link.


Falcon Cardano Stakepool

Driving the adoption of Cardano
The first Stake Pool 100% dedicated to promoting the adoption of Blockchain, cryptocurrencies and smart contracts in Argentina and Latin America. Check it out with this link. You can also check the on-chain data here.


Interests

Apart from being a Tech Lead / Backend Developer, I enjoy most of my time being outdoors. I like biking, hiking and spending a few days on the nature, probably camping on some quiet National Park. I also like playing football (that's how we call it in Argentina!) with my friends, although it's not that popular in these latitudes.

When forced indoors, I try to read as many books as possible, I enjoy a number of movies and television shows with a hot coffee, I am an aspiring chef and I spend a large amount of my free time exploring the latest technology advancements in the back-end web development world.

Awards & Certifications

  • Fund11 Winner | Cardano Project Catalyst | February 2024
  • 2nd Place - Algorand GreenHouse Hackathon: Soulbound NFTs | Algorand Foundation | August 2022
  • Marlowe Pioneer Program | IOG | May 2022
  • Selected Stake Pool | Cardano Foundation Delegation Strategy | April 2022
  • Fund7 Winner | Cardano Project Catalyst | February 2022
  • Fund5 Winner | Cardano Project Catalyst | August 2021
  • Plutus Pioneer Program | IOG | July 2021
  • Selected Stake Pool | IOG Delegation Strategy | May 2021
  • 1st Place - Blockchain for Social Good | University of Wyoming - WyoHackathon | October 2020