Rodolfo Pietro Calabrò
Tech Lead / Lead Software Engineer
Hands-on Tech Lead who drives end-to-end delivery across backend and distributed systems, with a blockchain specialization.
I started studying computer science at 13, and that early curiosity has stayed with me ever since. What kept me in it wasn't the code itself. It was the moment a hard technical problem turned into something people actually relied on.
Early on, I moved into blockchain, back when most engineers treated it as theory. I wanted to build the real thing, so I went after production work. I delivered an enterprise solution for maritime logistics and a central bank digital currency system for the Philippines, both live systems where accuracy had to hold up from day one....
Immediate Availability
Full-Time / Contract
Remote - Worldwide
Scalable Software
DXC Technologies
- Scaling geographical data ingestion and analysis with a 30% speed-up on the platform.
- Driving architecture decisions and technical requirements, including redesigning the test structure, for the primary geographical monitoring system at Italy's Ministry of Environment (MASE).
- Ensuring system reliability with 90%+ code coverage across the geospatial codebase through unit and integration testing.
MGAR Energy
- Built an AI tool to convert electrical panel photos into CAD designs, cutting design time by 90%.
- Automated core operational workflows and processes, resulting in a 30% increase in efficiency.
Blockchain Technologies
Horizen Labs
- Delivered the official ApeStake DApp end to end, reaching $3M+ TVL on Apecoin.
- Developed the frontend and smart contract integration in Solidity and TypeScript for ApeStake.io, the official staking DApp for Apecoin and the Ape NFT ecosystem, now rebranded ApeChainStake.io.
NTT Data
- Delivered a $2M+ enterprise blockchain solution for maritime logistics from architecture through production.
- Built a $450K+ enterprise CBDC solution end to end for the Philippines Central Bank.
Technical Leadership
Digital Energy
- Driving development of a renewable energy tokenization platform, handling 150+ transactions per second with 99.9% uptime.
- Reduced API costs by 40% through a custom indexer built with Ponder, improving data retrieval efficiency across the platform.
Vechain
- Grew VechainSDK JS as main contributor to 90K+ developers worldwide weekly.
- Led end-to-end development and community management of Greencart.vet, a DApp with 1M+ MAU.
- Shipped the VORJ no-code NFT platform used by 1000+ NFT artists weekly.