About

Miguel Mota is a highly skilled and experienced platform and language agnostic software engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, and blockchain developer with over 8 years of relevant experience. He thrives in startup culture and has a passion for developing innovative solutions using cutting-edge technologies. Miguel possesses a wide range of technical skills, including expertise in languages such as Go, NodeJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Solidity, Python, Bash, SQL, Java, Ruby, and C++. He is also proficient in databases such as PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, SQLite, and DynamoDB, as well as server-side technologies such as Nginx, KoaJS, ExpressJS, GOA, REST APIs, MVC, OAuth, JWT, PassportJS, Mongoose, Sequelize, and Apache. On the client-side, he has experience with HTML5, ReactJS, Redux, Web3JS, EthJS, Webpack, EmberJS, AngularJS, CycleJS, Sass, LESS, CSS3/4, Flexbox, RxJS, MomentJS, D3JS, Grunt, Gulp, Bootstrap, Semantic, Material UI, Websockets, Socket.io, Jekyll, Hugo, Canvas, Web Audio, ThreeJS, and Phonegap. Additionally, Miguel has extensive knowledge of testing tools such as Mocha, Jasmine, Jest, Karma, TruffleJS, QUnit, Supertest, PhantomJS, Selenium, and Web Driver, as well as platforms such as AWS, Azure, Ethereum, Docker, Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, Linux, Electron, Amazon Alexa, Firebase, Chrome extensions, IPFS, Arduino, Travis, and CircleCI. He is proficient in tools such as Git, Vim, Tmux, Netcat, dig, NMAP, Wireshark, and RPM, and has experience working with standards such as OpenAPI, IAB, and ARIA. Currently, Miguel is the co-founder of Hop Protocol, an Ethereum Layer-2 to Layer-2 swap protocol. He was also the co-founder of Authereum, a user onboarding platform for Ethereum, which pivoted to Hop Protocol in Q1 2021. Prior to this, he was self-employed as a full-stack consultant and contractor. Miguel holds an Associate degree in Math & Science from Norco College, which he obtained in 2013. He is highly skilled in AWS, blockchain, Ethereum, software engineering, smart contracts,