Federico Pomponii

FEDERICO POMPONII

Backend & Solidity Engineer

Writing code since 17. From early-stage crypto startups to Silicon Valley tech lead to blockchain engineer—driven by curiosity and a constant need to build. Passionate about clean architecture, whether it's backend systems or smart contracts. Open to new challenges.

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Experience

Blockchain & Web3

Smart Contract & DeFi Engineering

  • Building and deploying smart contracts on EVM-compatible chains
  • DeFi protocol development and integration
  • Solidity development with emphasis on security and gas optimization
  • Blockchain infrastructure integration (Infura, Fireblocks, RPC providers)
  • Cross-chain bridge implementations and multi-chain architectures

Backend & Architecture

Full Stack Developer → Tech Lead

Confidence Systems, Palo Alto

  • Promoted to Tech Lead & Head of Architecture
  • Led DevOps team, reduced AWS costs by 50%
  • Built public SDK generating $10M+ revenue
  • Rebuilt legacy frontend with React & Next.js
  • Implemented QA automation, testing infrastructure, and LLM features

Tech Lead & Head of Architecture

Kleecks

  • Led architecture and development of core platform
  • Built application using Vue.js, Node.js, and GraphQL
  • Designed scalable backend infrastructure

Cloud Developer

Sky Italia / UK

  • Built scalable streaming API on AWS
  • Developed EU-Portability authentication service (400ms latency)
  • Led development of social platform using React and GraphQL

Frontend Developer

Conio

Frontend development for cryptocurrency wallet application

Technical Skills

Blockchain & Smart Contracts

Solidity
Rust
EVM
DeFi

Wormhole • Infura • Fireblocks • zkRollup

Backend & Frontend

TypeScript
React
Node.js
Vue

Next.js • tRPC • GraphQL • Tailwind

Infrastructure & AI

AWS
Docker
Postgres
AI/ML

Kafka • RabbitMQ • Langchain • RAG

Featured Projects

Emissions Trading System

SOLANA

Master's thesis project: Built an ETS on Solana blockchain using Rust and web3.js

→ View Thesis

Wormhole NFT Bridge

BRIDGE

Cross-chain NFT bridge implementation using Wormhole protocol

→ View on GitHub

Negen AI

AI

Modular AI tool for document analysis, chat, and summarization using RAG

→ Visit Website

More Projects

GITHUB

Check out more of my open source work and contributions

→ View GitHub Profile

Education

Master's in Computer Science

University of Bologna • 2022

Thesis: Emissions Trading System on Solana

Languages

🇮🇹 ItalianNATIVE
🇬🇧 EnglishFLUENT