Senior Software Engineer

Marco Mariscal

I lead the three-person team running Cactus, a production governance platform. I also built and launched Vero, an AI strength coach for iOS. My work spans product, frontend, backend systems, infrastructure, and EVM protocols.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2024 - Present

ScopeLift

Lead the three-person team that took over and runs Cactus, owning technical direction, infrastructure, delivery, and client-facing execution. Also shipped MultiGov cross-chain contracts and protocol work for ZKsync, Uniswap, and Seamless.

TypeScriptReactNode.jsPostgreSQLSolidity

Software Engineer

Nov 2023

Cozy Finance

Shipped a production React and TypeScript feature during a one-month engagement, owning delivery from codebase onboarding through release.

ReactTypeScript

Frontend Engineer

Jul 2021 - Oct 2023

Yield Protocol

Built and operated the frontend and subgraph infrastructure for a fixed-rate DeFi protocol that reached $20M-$30M in TVL and approximately 6,000 users. Led frontend delivery for an eight-month expansion using interest-bearing assets across core protocol flows.

ReactTypeScriptGraphQLEthers.js

Senior Strategist, Business Intelligence

Feb 2019 - Jun 2021

ForwardPMX

Built Python and JavaScript reporting automation used across North American teams to reduce manual analytics and reporting work.

PythonJavaScriptSQL

Projects

Cactus

Production governance platform run by a three-person team. Cut infrastructure run rate by more than 50% and proposal-creation load time from 5.0s to 0.8s.

ProductInfrastructureGovernance

Vero

AI strength coach for iOS. Designed, built, and launched independently across product, mobile, backend systems, subscriptions, evaluation, and release automation.

React NativeSupabaseAI

MultiGov

Cross-chain governance infrastructure for Wormhole. Authored proposal contracts spanning EVM networks and Solana and remediated audit findings.

SoliditySolanaCross-chain

Seamless Protocol

Built multichain transaction flows and product infrastructure for a DeFi application that packages leveraged positions into simple tokens.

TypeScriptDeFiMultichain

Education

Dartmouth College

Sep 2008 - May 2012

Bachelor of Arts

Economics, Minor in Neuroscience
4 year Varsity Baseball, Pitcher
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity

Technical Skills

Product

TypeScriptJavaScriptReactReact NativeNext.jsExpo

Systems

Node.jsPostgreSQLSupabaseGraphQLDockerAWS

Protocols

SolidityFoundryWagmiViemEthers.js

AI

LLM applicationsAgent workflowsEvaluation systems