Manuel Benitez

Founding Engineer & CTO Feb 2026 - Present

gildiBerlin / Remote

Solo-building an AI portfolio platform for venture funds. Founders' round closing with strategic angels.

Full stack from scratch: Next.js frontend, NestJS API, MongoDB, queue-backed ingest and background jobs.
Document intelligence pipeline extracting capital-call notices, distributions, and financials with a verification loop.
Payment rails integration via Modern Treasury and Stripe; fund-flow tracking, reconciliation, and LP-facing reporting.
Owning architecture, infra, delivery cadence, and engineering decisions end-to-end, from prototype to production.

Software Engineer Sep 2025 - Feb 2026

LabrysBrisbane, AU

Contract engineer inside Australia's largest web3 consultancy, building product features across client blockchain systems.

Shipped production frontend and backend work for external clients, integrating smart contracts authored by the internal Solidity team.
Worked on-site with distributed client teams across APAC time zones.

CPO & Co-Founder Apr 2024 - Dec 2025

Coda DigitalRemote

Web3 platform tokenizing music rights: ERC-1155 issuance, fiat + multi-token checkout, on-chain royalty distribution, secondary marketplace.

1,000+ wallets onboarded, $10k+ USDC distributed to rights holders, ~$70k primary + secondary volume.
Integrated ~20 smart contracts end-to-end on the product side (ERC-1155, royalty splits, marketplace), paired with Stripe fiat rails and multi-token crypto checkout and wallet abstraction.
Led product and engineering from zero to live marketplace, hands-on across frontend, backend, payments, and contract integration.

Awards2nd place, Etherlink track · Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Coda Digital track · $70k+ in non-dilutive funding secured.

Web3 Developer & Co-Founder Dec 2023 - Sep 2025

Rusty Robot Country ClubRemote

NFT and token studio shipping across IOTA, Shimmer, and BASE.

Shipped 5-6 dApps across IOTA, Shimmer, and BASE; sold out an 11,111-NFT collection and launched a native token.
Product-side integration of NFT and token bridges (LayerZero), on-chain coin-toss and raffle flows, and a portfolio tracker, pairing contract interfaces with production-ready frontends.
Owned frontend, indexing, and go-live coordination; integrated contracts authored by the Solidity team.

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