I’m a product-focused frontend / full-stack engineer with 10+ years of experience building and shipping user-facing applications. I work close to the product, own problems end-to-end, and enjoy turning complex systems into clear, intuitive, high-leverage experiences.

I care deeply about UX, system clarity, and reducing friction—between frontend ↔ backend, product ↔ engineering, and users ↔ complex technology. While frontend is my core strength, I regularly step outside strict role boundaries when it helps the team move faster or build better abstractions.

• Frontend & full-stack web applications
• Product-driven interfaces: UX, clarity, accessibility, and reliability over unnecessary abstraction
• Complex system integration: Frontend ↔ backend ↔ Web3 / blockchain systems

I helped take the product from idea to mainnet, scaling to: 2M+ users, $7M TVL, $55M+ trading volume.

I initially led frontend and product initiatives, then stepped deeper into the backend when gaps appeared. To unblock progress, I ramped up on Rust and Go, identified avoidable system complexity, and helped removing a CosmWasm proxy layer that was increasing coupling and slowing development.

Impact:

• Clearer system boundaries
• Lower maintenance overhead
• Faster iteration
• Better cross-team collaboration and onboarding for new hires

I engage with open source when it improves real production systems—whether that’s contributing code, reporting upstream issues, or helping maintainers debug tricky edge cases.

• Elys Asset Registry
  Active collaborator on the asset registry used across the Elys ecosystem, working closely with the core team to ensure correctness, consistency, and long-term maintainability.
  https://github.com/elys-network/elys-asset-registry

• Elys Core Repositories
  Small but meaningful contributions across the main codebase—often outside my frontend role—to debug production issues, improve interfaces, and unblock teams.
  https://github.com/elys-network/elys/commits?author=Wgil

Older contributions, but good examples of how I approach debugging, communication, and public technical problem-solving:

• redux-form
  redux-form/redux-form#2325 (comment)
• Formik
  jaredpalmer/formik#2057
• redux-firestore
  prescottprue/redux-firestore#45 (comment)

• Product first — user needs, clarity, and reliability come before abstractions
• Ownership — comfortable being accountable for the final user-facing result
• Collaboration — close work with design, backend, and stakeholders
• Adaptability — learn new tools quickly when the problem requires it
• Pragmatism — simple solutions beat clever ones

I enjoy working on early-stage products, improving onboarding flows, and helping teams move faster with less friction. I’m especially drawn to roles where engineering, product, and real users intersect.

Beyond product work, I love exploring new technologies, whether it’s building mining rigs, tinkering with hardware setups, or experimenting with new frameworks and tools. Staying hands-on with tech keeps me curious and constantly learning.

📫 Feel free to reach out if you enjoy working with thoughtful, low-ego teams building real products.