Luis Herasme

Electronics engineer and software developer. Now, I'm working in the blockchain space, building new things and exploring decentralized technologies.

Experience

SEP 2025 - PRESENT

Payment Stack, Founding Engineer. Payment Stack is the company behind Moni, a money transfer service that sends dollars from the U.S. to Latin America. I work on the frontend and backend.

MAR 2024 - PRESENT

Lucrise, Cofounder & CTO. We created Rápido Tickets, a ticketing platform where organizers sell tickets and buyers can transfer them.

We also built Rápido Pagos, a payments app that sent and received money through payment links. We shut it down for regulatory reasons.

APR 2024 - JUL 2025

Vista, Cofounder. Vista is a data & engineering group.

AUG 2024 - JUN 2025

Blobscan, Software Developer. Blobscan is the first open-source block explorer for the EIP-4844 shard blob transactions.

DEC 2022 - MAR 2024

PolarSync, Software Developer. PolarSync indexes blockchain data for developers. I built the dashboard, the polarmap deployment service, the developer CLI tool, and an AssemblyScript API compatible with The Graph.

APR 2022 - OCT 2023

Novatopia 4022, Software Developer. Novatopia 4022 is a Web3 game. I worked on the game server and client.

AUG 2021 - AUG 2024

INTEC, Dominican Republic - Research assistant. Collaborated with a research team on the study "Heavy Metals and Radionuclides in Atmospheric Aerosols: Contribution to Air Quality Management in Santo Domingo." I built a sensor network to collect high-resolution air pollution data.

SEP 2020 - SEP 2021

INTEC, Dominican Republic - Member of Apolo27. Apolo 27 is a team from the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo for the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge. As the leader of the telemetry group, I built the electronics and software that collected and analyzed rover data.

Contract work

JAN 2025

POKT Wallet, Built a cryptocurrency wallet for the Pocket Network (POKT).

Education

I studied Electronics & Communication Engineering at the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, graduating Summa Cum Laude with a 3.92/4.00 GPA. For my senior thesis, I designed and implemented a digital communication system that integrates artificial intelligence techniques, using an autoencoder to generate optimal symbol waveforms and improve resilience against channel distortions. I was also Vice President of the Electronics & Communication Engineering Committee.