Guillermo Alvarez
Co-founder & CTO, Boba · Austin, TX
I'm co-founder and CTO of Boba, an AI-native trading platform built by Able. I architected it and grew it to 20K users, $12.7M in trading volume and 5K peak weekly actives. I lead a team of four engineers, and I'm still the most active contributor on the codebase.
I've spent a decade shipping products that move money: e-commerce stores and sneaker bots from 2016, then smart contracts, NFTs and RWAs for galleries, artists and communities, and now trading infrastructure and AI agents, including one of the first MCP servers for cross-chain agentic trading.
You can find me on GitHub and LinkedIn, or reach me via email.
01Experience
Able (Boba) · Co-founder, CTO & Head of Engineering2024 – NowCo-founded Able and architected Boba, grown to 20K users and $12.7M in volume. Raised a $1.5M pre-seed, hired and lead a team of four, and own infrastructure and DevOps across the stack.
Freelance · Smart contract & full-stack engineer2020 – 2024Took crypto teams from idea to full product, including E-Land, an early RWA project selling fractional shares of real estate as ERC-4675 NFTs, and built crypto payment integrations for businesses.
Unit London · Software engineer (contract)2023Moved the gallery from a traditional Web2 art house to a Web3-integrated one, built on the Art Blocks Engine.
Bets.io · Software engineer (contract)2023Led the community NFT project from contracts to launch: wrote the EVM contracts, led the pivot to Solana, built the mint site, and tied the NFTs into casino rewards.
- Encrypted Reality · Founder2021
A no-code NFT launchpad for artists: factory contracts for ERC-721 and ERC-1155 collections, plus a marketplace built on Reservoir and Seaport.
- DGDigital Genesis / Farfetched Labs · Advisor2021
Advised companies on scaling and integrating Web3, securing $100K+ in contracts.
Independent · E-commerce developer & bot builder2016 – 2020Built stores for dropshipping clients and local businesses, and ran a sneaker bot that secured high-value retail drops: $50K+ in personal revenue and high six figures for clients.
02Projects
- BobaThe AI-native trading platform I co-founded: 20K users, $12.7M volume.
- Boba agent & MCP serverOne of the first MCP servers for cross-chain agentic trading.
- Encrypted RealityA no-code NFT launchpad and marketplace for artists.
- Bets.io NFT collectionA community NFT mint, from contracts to launch, on EVM then Solana.
- Boba CLIA full agentic trading harness in the terminal, shipped on npm.
- Unit London × Art BlocksBringing a contemporary art gallery onchain with Art Blocks Engine.
Polymarket SDK & componentsThe type-safe SDK Polymarket didn't have, three versions deep.- E-LandFractional real estate onchain: property shares as ERC-4675 NFTs.
- Sneaker botAutomated checkout for hype drops: 200+ pairs of Yeezy 350 Zebras in one run.
03Toolbox
- Languages
- Rust, TypeScript, Go, Python, Solidity
- Frontend
- Next.js, React, React Native (Expo), Valtio, Tailwind, Radix, TradingView
- Backend
- Node, Postgres, pgvector, sqlc, Redis, RabbitMQ, ClickHouse, TimescaleDB
- Infra
- Railway, Docker, Caddy, KrakenD, Infisical, OpenTelemetry, Grafana Alloy
- Solana
- Anchor, Yellowstone gRPC, QUIC / SWQoS, Triton, Jupiter, DFlow, Pump.fun, Turnkey
- EVM
- ERC-721/1155, ERC-4675, viem, ethers, Uniswap V2–V4, Hyperliquid, Polymarket
- AI
- MCP, CLI agents, Agent harness design, Agent loops