Nicolás Victorio Ludueña

Senior Full-Stack & Blockchain Developer

Córdoba, Argentinaluduena.nicolas.victorio@gmail.com github.com/nicolasLuduena linkedin.com/in/nicolas-victorio-luduena nico-luduena.online

Professional Summary

Senior full-stack developer with 5+ years across protocol engineering, web development and production infrastructure, working primarily in TypeScript and Rust. At TxPipe: designed and owned the complete off-chain integration for Metera, a Cardano DeFi platform, from architecture through mainnet; core developer on the Tx3 transaction language; builds the internal tooling TxPipe's smart-contract auditors work in; and independently reviews Cardano Vision 2026 milestone deliveries against their stated scope and evidence.

Technical Skills

Blockchain & Protocol Engineering: Rust, TypeScript, Pallas, Dolos, UTxORPC, Tx3, Lucid, blaze-cardano

Backend & Web: Next.js, React, NestJS, PostgreSQL, DrizzleORM, Prisma, GraphQL, Python, Django

Infrastructure & DevOps: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions, ElasticSearch, Grafana

Professional Experience

TxPipe · Blockchain Fullstack Developer

2023 – Present

Metera, architecture to mainnet. Core developer on a Cardano DeFi platform. Designed and owned the entire off-chain integration end to end — transaction building, chain indexing, persistence, API and deployment — working alongside a dedicated on-chain designer, and carried it through to mainnet launch. TypeScript, Lucid, Dolos, UTxORPC, DrizzleORM, PostgreSQL, Next.js, Terraform.
Tx3 transaction language. Core developer on TxPipe's Tx3 language and a contributor to the Rust Cardano infrastructure underneath it, Pallas and Dolos. Rust, Tokio, Pest, Handlebars.
Smart-contract audit tooling. Builds the internal VS Code extensions and TypeScript tooling that TxPipe's auditors work in, turning smart-contract review into a repeatable workflow.
Third-party assurance. Reviews Cardano Vision 2026 milestone deliveries, validating each delivery claim against its stated scope and submitted evidence.
Midnight dApps and developer education. Designs and builds Midnight dApps and writes TxPipe's educational material on the protocol, turning specification-level concepts into working reference applications.
Apex Fusion. Built transaction builders for Vector chain stress testing, authored the eUTxO onboarding documentation, and led a proof-of-concept order book on its fast-finality chain.
Lace Anatomy. Built the Cardano transaction explorer with the Lace Anatomy team. TypeScript, React, Next.js, Konva, UTxORPC, Cardano DB Sync.
Marlowe SDK. Core developer on the multi-language Project Catalyst SDK. Rust, Go, Python, TypeScript, C#, OpenAPI Generator.

Plank · Fullstack Web Fellow and Developer

2022 – 2023

Built and shipped a clothing e-commerce site and an MVP for a Cardano real-estate tokenization platform, front to back. React, Next.js, NestJS, TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS.

Seenka · Backend Developer and DevOps

2021 – 2022

Integrated the machine-learning team's MLflow models into a production Django and Google Pub/Sub pipeline, and ran the ElasticSearch, Grafana and Kubernetes infrastructure around it on GCP.

Selected Projects

nico-agent: Open source. A loop where agents implement my GitHub and Linear issues overnight, a second agent on a different harness verifies each PR, and I merge in the morning. Rust, Svelte, herdr. · https://github.com/nicolasLuduena/nico-agent
Metera: Cardano DeFi platform. Designed and owned the complete off-chain integration — transaction building, indexing, persistence, API and infrastructure — and delivered it to mainnet as a core developer.
Tx3: TxPipe's transaction description language. Core developer on the language and its Rust toolchain. Rust, Tokio, Pest, Handlebars, Pallas, Dolos.
Balius Discord Bot, Project Catalyst: Delivered a Project Catalyst milestone on Asteria's Balius Discord bot. Rust, Dolos, Balius, Demeter.
Lace Anatomy: Cardano transaction explorer, built with the Lace Anatomy team. TypeScript, React, Konva, UTxORPC, Cardano DB Sync.
envbro: Open source. Secure peer-to-peer .env file management. · https://github.com/nicolasLuduena/envbro
batlights: Open source. A TUI for managing office LED strips over UNIX sockets. · https://github.com/nicolasLuduena/batlights

Awards & Recognition

2026: 2nd place · Midnight Hackathon Buenos Aires — second consecutive year
2025: 2nd place · Midnight Hackathon Buenos Aires
2025: Invited participant · Midnight London Summit Hackathon

Education

Teaching Assistant and Tutor

2021

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Tutored at both high school and university levels, culminating in a Teaching Assistant role for a first-year computer science course.

Computer Analyst

2018 – 2021

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Graduated among the top students in the class with an average of 9.58 out of 10. Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals and low-level operating system concepts.

Electronics Technician & High School Degree

2011 – 2017

Graduated top of my class. First programming language was C for microcontrollers and robotics; learned Arduino and won multiple regional electronics hackathons.

Languages

Spanish (Native) · English (Fluent)