Ignacio Pastor Sánchez, arms crossed, in front of a brick wall.
MADRID2026
About

The longer story.

I'm Ignacio, a developer in Madrid. I studied economics, learned machine learning, spent five years building crypto systems, and now build AI agents.

Along the way I helped build two startups, was part of the R&D department of a major UK gaming company, and led the technical team of a new layer 1 blockchain we built from the ground up. I've built dozens of MVPs, products and internal tools. I enjoy learning new technologies and pushing myself to apply different tools and techniques to the problems that come up.

How I got here.

I started in economics and international business. In 2020 I went deep into programming and the more technical parts of my work, and ended up going back to school for a master's in machine learning. A year later everything came together: NFT summer arrived, and I started writing smart contracts for clients as a freelancer and competing in hackathons around the world.

In 2022 I co-founded Gokaden in Station F's incubator and built its first prototype, the Forge, where an image model drew the art for each NFT. That summer I also joined Improbable to build the contracts behind its metaverse: a DAO treasury and governance system, and research prototypes like cross-chain identity on ERC-6551 and an NFT marketplace a game built with Unreal could plug into.

Improbable then built Somnia, an EVM blockchain, and I became its Head of Engineering. For two years I led a team of five from the first test network to mainnet and the token launch. We shipped the staking protocol that now holds over 20% of the SOMI supply and the quest platform that rewarded 95,000 community members. I was the technical contact for the 50+ projects building on the chain. I also built a custom interface for Safe's multisignature wallets, web3 video games and NFT collections. I spoke at conferences too. It was the most intense stretch of my career.

In January 2026 I joined Charms as founding engineer. Every AI companion in the app had its own token, and the agent could pay for its own inference from its trading fees. My job was to make the crypto invisible to the user: abstracted wallets that open with one tap and never ask for gas, token launches, and swaps across Base, Solana and BNB.

Since July 2026 I still build in crypto, but my focus has shifted to AI agents, internal tools and websites for small businesses, agencies and startups. On the side, I build my own projects under the name Move78. What I enjoy hasn't changed since my first gig: working on the first version of something, defining the vision for how we're going to build it, and then making it real.

Experience.

  1. Jul 2026 – now

    Full Stack & AI Engineer · Move78

    Freelance for small businesses, agencies and startups · Madrid, remote

    • AI agents that take repetitive work off a team (replies, reports, documents) inside the tools it already uses.
    • Process audits: I map how the work gets done and where AI saves the most hours.
    • Products and internal tools from the first version to production.
    • Websites and landing pages with a CMS the client's team updates on its own.

    Claude Code · MCP · Next.js · Go · Docker · GCP · WordPress

  2. Jan 2026 – Jul 2026

    Founding Engineer · Charms

    AI companion app with an on-chain economy · Madrid, hybrid

    • Built the token launch system for AI characters on Clanker, with custom Uniswap V4 liquidity curves.
    • Built one-tap wallets with no gas to pay (Privy, EIP-7702, ERC-7579), so people who had never used crypto never saw it.
    • Wired cross-chain swaps (0x, Relay) and real-time token data (Codex) across Base, Solana and BNB into the backend.

    TypeScript · Hono · React Native · Solidity · Uniswap V4 · Privy

  3. Jan 2024 – Nov 2025

    Head of Engineering · Somnia Network

    EVM layer 1 blockchain built by Improbable · Remote · team of 5 engineers

    • Led engineering from the first test network to mainnet and the token launch.
    • Built the Somnia core protocol (staking and the validator committee), which holds over 20% of the SOMI supply. Audited by Hacken.
    • Shipped the community programs (TGE airdrop, Kaito Yapper, the Quest platform) that rewarded 95,000+ contributors.
    • Ran the security audits and was the main technical contact for 50+ projects building on the chain.

    Solidity · Foundry · NestJS · Next.js · Tailwind · Leadership

  4. Aug 2022 – Dec 2023

    Blockchain Developer · Improbable

    Metaverse infrastructure (SpatialOS, MSquared) · Remote

    • Built the DAO treasury contract and governance system for the metaverse protocol.
    • Prototyped cross-chain identity with ERC-6551 token-bound accounts, and NFTs whose metadata changes with play.
    • Built a marketplace a game could plug into: Solidity contracts, an Express backend and a Next.js front end.

    Solidity · ERC-6551 · Express · Next.js

  5. Jun 2022 – Aug 2023

    Co-founder & Founding Engineer · Gokaden

    Character IP publisher with NFT licensing · Station F incubator · Remote

    • Launched the first prototype, the Forge: an image model drew each NFT's art and users minted their own contracts through a beacon proxy.
    • Led the external team that built the first version of the platform, and pitched investors during the Station F programme.

    Solidity · IPFS · Image generation

  6. Oct 2021 – Aug 2022

    Freelance Web3 Developer · Move78

    Independent · Madrid

    • NFT projects for clients: marketplace contracts with upgradeable proxies and Merkle allowlists, and full-stack apps on Ethereum, Polygon and BSC.

    Solidity · React · ethers.js

Skills

AI and agents
Claude Code, MCP, Pydantic AI, LLM APIs, Python, TensorFlow
Front end
React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, React Native (Expo)
Back end
Node.js, Hono, NestJS, Express, Go, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB
Infra
Docker, Caddy, GCP, AWS, CI/CD
Web3
Solidity, Foundry, Viem, Wagmi, Privy, Uniswap V4

Education

MSc Machine Learning & AI
Universidad Católica de Murcia · 2019 – 2020
MBA & International Trade
EUDE Business School, Madrid · 2016 – 2017
BSc Economics
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid · 2011 – 2015

Certifications

Blockchain Specialization
Coursera, SUNY Buffalo · 2021
AWS Solutions Architect, Associate
Amazon · 2020
AWS Machine Learning, Specialty
Amazon · 2020
TensorFlow Developer Certificate
Google · 2020

Languages

Spanish
native
English
proficient, TOEFL 112/120
Mandarin Chinese
conversational, HSK 5
French
conversational

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