Founding Engineer / Full-Stack

Manuel Benitez

I'm Founding Engineer & CTO at gildi, an AI portfolio platform for VCs. Sole engineer: full-stack from scratch with Next.js, NestJS, MongoDB, an LLM pipeline that extracts portfolio positions from quarterly reports, and capital calls automated via Modern Treasury.

Before this I co-founded Coda (web3 music royalties: 1k+ wallets, ~$80k primary and secondary volume, $100k+ TVL, $70k+ in non-dilutive funding), shipped multi-chain dApps including an 11k NFT mint and a native token launch, contracted at Labrys in Brisbane, and started out as a junior at IBM. Seven years across fintech, web3, and AI, plus four off the grid traveling, which I documented in A Digital Scrapbook.

Currently in Berlin. Relocating to Indonesia and open to senior or founding engineering roles with Australia-based teams.

Projects

gildi

A portfolio management platform for GPs and LPs, built from scratch.

Longevity Wiki

A research-backed wiki of ingredients and recipes for eating well and living longer.

A Digital Scrapbook

A curated archive of analog photographs from a decade on the move.

Coda

Archived

A web3 platform that turns music royalties into tradable digital assets.