Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience, including 5+ years building blockchain infrastructure, distributed systems, and backend services in production. I focus on Rust, scalable architectures, and reliable systems for financial applications.
Currently Principal Engineer at NearX, leading backend and blockchain engineering on Stellar/Soroban products (Rust, NestJS, Terraform, AWS), including an x402 payments SDK for Stellar. Also VP of the Stellar Ambassadors Program in Brazil and SCF Pilot.
Stratus at Cloudwalk (InfinitePay), the open source EVM-compatible ledger in Rust behind mission-critical financial operations (~1.8k TPS):
- Cut leader deployment downtime from 5 minutes to ~10 seconds
- Improved transaction performance by 50% through flamegraph-driven optimization
- Made follower data import 6x faster with RocksDB-native replication
- Designed multi-region disaster recovery and an automated benchmarking pipeline
TUSST, an open source developer onboarding and tooling platform for Stellar, featuring the Forge browser IDE for Soroban (Rust compiler + WebAssembly, real-time code execution). Funded through the Stellar Foundation Hackathon and selected for Stellar Kickstart Cohort #7. Live at tusst.xyz. Also maintainer of SoroPG after a community handover.
Vants, a non-custodial DeFi venture on Stellar: a global account for crypto yield and everyday spending through regional rails (Pix, SPEI, CBU). SDF grant backed, InstaAwards winner.
Previously at Fluxo, building on/off-ramp financial systems, smart accounts, and account abstraction flows (.NET, Web3Auth, Stellar tooling).
- Hackathon organizer with the Stellar Ambassadors Program, including Meridian 2025
- Wins: Stellar Lending Protocol Challenge (Argentina), Crecimiento Aleph Hub Stellar track, Cosmos Real Estate Tokenization Hackathon, and the Stellar Foundation Hackathon (TUSST)
- LinkedIn: /in/pedro-pelicioni
- Open to backend, distributed systems, and blockchain infrastructure roles