Innovative Web3 Solutions by Rafael Santamaría - Your Blockchain Expert

Expertise in smart contracts, tokenization, DeFi, and digital assets for secure and scalable solutions.

Innovating in Web3 and Blockchain

I’m Rafael Santamaría, a seasoned web3 and blockchain consultant with extensive experience in delivering secure digital-asset solutions. Let’s explore the future together.

Since 2016 on web3

+8 Years Experience

Soft Skills

Leadership & Recruiting (built and led teams achieving important milestone)
Extreme Ownership & Bias for Action
Consultative Translation (bridging technical concepts for business stakeholders)
Resourcefulness & Self-Funding Initiative
Resilience in Ambiguous, Fast-Paced Environments
Cross-Functional Leadership (coordinating dev, security, and ops teams)
Strategic Visioning (shaping product roadmaps from first principles)
Enterprise-Level Negotiation (closing deals with banks and large institutions)
Event Evangelism & Public Advocacy (Spark 2024 presentations, public tv interviews, testimonial videos)
Proactive Security Mindset (designing incident-response plans, threat monitoring)
Mentorship in Technical Contexts (workshops, corporate training)
Cultural & Global Adaptability (remote teams, multi-region rollouts)
Growth-Mindset Learning (quickly picking up Solana CLI, new infra tools)

Core Skills

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Tech Tools

Protocols

Programming Languages

• Smart Contracts – Solidity (ERC-20/721/1155, UUPS proxy), SPL token ops

• DeFi Integrations – Uniswap v2/v3 price checks & routing, on-chain swaps and bridging

• Oracles & Data – Chainlink Proof-of-Reserve, price feeds, custom on-chain monitors

• Security Ops – Blockaid & Hexagate threat monitoring, incident-response runbooks, multisig ops

• DevOps & Pipelines – Fireblocks SDK, gas-station workflows, CI/CD workflows for COPW stablecoin, GitHub Actions

• Infrastructure Concepts – RPC fail-over, observability metrics, key-management best practices

• Languages & Tools – Solidity, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python; Solana CLI, Foundry, Hardhat

Experience

Explore my professional journey in web3 and blockchain consulting, showcasing key projects and achievements.

Crypto Specialist | Wenia Apr 2023–Present

• Led COPW (peso-backed) stablecoin: Solidity (proxy pattern), Chainlink PoR, OpenZeppelin audit.

• Integrated Fireblocks MPC + gas-station; built CI pipelines for deposit/withdraw ops and monitoring.

• Implemented threat-detection dashboards with Blockaid & Hexagate; authored incident-response SOPs.

• Designed SPL-token gas-station proof-of-concept on Solana CLI for cross-chain plans.

Founder & CEO | Bits Dapps 2017–2023

• Closed & delivered blockchain solutions for Bancolombia Group (DeFi R&D) and Unergy (solar-infrastructure tokenization).

• Architected Uniswap price-oracle calls and automatic swap execution for multi-currency ICO.

• Recruited and managed 10-person engineering team; oversaw budgets, client pitches, and delivery.

• Published open-source DApp templates (ERC-20, ERC-721, EIP-712 signing) used by community projects.

Industrial & Energy Blockchain Consultant (Enel, National Univ.) 2015–2019

• Coordinated IEC61850 R&D laboratory (ISO 17025 accredited) for tokenized-energy pilots.

• Led Engineering team and achieved lab acreditation (first on LATAM)

• Advised on key-management, multisig custody and infrastructure security for digital-substation data.

Who am I?

Expertise in blockchain, DeFi, and digital assets for secure and scalable solutions.

My Tech Career

Dive into the technologies, frameworks, and programming languages that have shaped my evolution—from foundational automation and network security to mastering Solidity, JavaScript, Python, and Web3 tooling. Discover the tools and techniques that paved my path to building decentralized applications and secure blockchain infrastructures.

My personal Web3 Journey

Join me as I recount the pivotal moments that shaped my path—from winning a Barcelona hackathon to architecting stablecoins and guiding enterprise blockchain integrations. I’ll share key leadership lessons, technical breakthroughs, and the growth mindset that fuels my passion for decentralized innovation.