Head of Product at OnRe - Previously Gateway Labs - Circle
I'm 22 and I've spent the last four years building infrastructure in crypto. I co-founded Gateway Labs, a privacy company that processed over 3 million credentials before Circle acquired us. Now I lead product at OnRe, a decentralized reinsurance protocol on Solana managing around $85M.
Most of what I do is architect systems that need to scale under real constraints - regulatory, technical, or both. I'm interested in the messy parts: where DeFi meets regulation, where AI meets product, and where the decisions you make today become expensive mistakes six months from now. Outside of work, I follow motorsport more closely than I probably should and shoot photography when I travel. I'm Portuguese, based in Portugal.
Work
OnRe Protocol
2024-presentHead of Product
Decentralized reinsurance on Solana. I build the product layer for a protocol that bridges traditional insurance capital with DeFi yields - under real regulatory constraints, not theoretical ones.
Gateway Labs
2021-2025Co-founder & Head of Engineering - Acquired by Circle
Privacy infrastructure for credential verification using multi-party computation. We processed 3M+ credentials and cut issuance latency from 12 seconds to 800 milliseconds before Circle acquired us and integrated the tech into Arc.
elgamal.sol
open sourceGas-optimized homomorphic encryption primitives for on-chain privacy. Open-source EVM library.
Luppa AI
2025Part-time advisor on AI content infrastructure and trend intelligence architecture.
Writing
One decision, one tradeoff, one outcome.
What happens when you try to tokenize one of the oldest financial instruments.