Manuel Gonzalez Garcia

Full Stack Developer with passion for building high-performance and scalable products.

Summary

Hello, I'm Manuel, a Full Stack Software Engineer with a strong foundation in Next.js, TypeScript and Python. My passion is building high-performance and scalable products.

At Kairon Labs, I play a pivotal role in enhancing a Web3 market-making platform, leveraging modern frameworks like Next.js and Tanstack Query to drive efficiency and scalability. Collaborating within a fast-paced, high-impact development team, I helped ensure robust and reliable trading operations.

Quick Facts

Location: Ghent, Belgium
Experience: +5 Years
Education: Computer Science
Languages: English, Spanish, French, Dutch

Work Experience

Kairon Labs

Full Stack Developer

Jun 2024 - Present Current

Contributed significantly to the development and enhancement of a Web3 market making platform, leveraging Next.js and Tanstack Query to build scalable and efficient solutions.
Played a key role in developing a high-performance trading interface integrated with CEX (Centralized Exchanges) and DEX (Decentralized Exchanges), ensuring seamless and reliable operations.
Implemented a Rust-based market data platform and trading engine integrating 14+ CEX exchanges, a DEX (Uniswap v2), and traditional-finance feeds, working directly in latency-sensitive hot-path code with lock-free data structures and real-time messaging (Aeron/NATS), plus accounting logic for market-making strategies including position and PnL tracking.

Inbentus

Software Engineer

Feb 2022 - Jan 2024

Reduced around 80% of the technical debt by refactoring MVP code in adherence to SOLID principles and Vue best practices.
Successfully orchestrated the precise release and deployment of 16 new software versions, ensuring seamless implementation and adherence to planning.
Achieved an outstanding 87% test coverage, systematically addressing each product requirement and ensuring comprehensive quality assurance.
Achieved a 41% reduction in the Electron web application boot time by strategically organizing systemd services.

CarsBarter

Full Stack Developer

Jul 2021 - Feb 2022

Maintained the integrity of a production application within a 5-developer Scrum team, adeptly resolving bugs with a focus on user activity and log analysis.
Elevated CarsBarter's web traffic significantly by creating a blog, hosting more than 100 impactful blog posts.
Contributed significantly to 2 consultancy projects: Calculers and Inbentus.

Projects

Proboda

Freelance engagement building a full-stack wedding-vendor marketplace for the Spanish market, plus an AI-agent engineering harness that let a non-technical client ship production code directly.

Next.js 15 Fastify Prisma Claude Code

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