Alfredo Gallardo

I’m a Staff Engineer with 14+ years architecting and shipping production systems across crypto, AI, and SaaS. I take products from zero to scale by designing distributed architectures, owning the infrastructure beneath them, and writing the hard core at the center. I care about the craft more than the stack—I’ll learn whatever a problem needs and pick the tool that actually fits.

Recently at dcSpark, I led local-first AI agent and on-chain protocol work. I was the founding engineer on Shinkai, designing and building Shinkai Local AI in Rust—a privacy-preserving, local-first AI agent runtime shipped as a cross-platform desktop app with cloud-optional extensions. I also owned the architecture for the tool/protocol layer and OAuth-based capabilities, shipping an MCP-like design before it became a public standard.

I bootstrapped AgentLayer to certify, integrate, and measure ROI of AI agents across business operations, shaping the foundational architecture from zero-state into early product. I architected and built a Layer-2 network on Midnight with selective privacy and 1K+ TPS, using the Ligero zero-knowledge proof system and the open-source Sovereign SDK. I’ve also built the AI-agent layer for Midnight.city (agentic NPCs reasoning over on-chain state) and shipped tooling like MCP Dockmaster for managing MCP servers.

Before that, I led major delivery and platform modernization as a Core Team Senior Software Engineer at Evernote, including React/Electron upgrades and a two-tier delivery system for faster UI iteration. As CTO at Cotalker, I built and led a multidisciplinary engineering org, migrated 100K+ lines from FlowJS to TypeScript, transformed EC2 into Kubernetes microservices on AWS, and drove security hardening through ethical-hacking audits. I enjoy product-first engineering and teams that take system design, reliability, and security seriously.