Theo Gonella

Based
Barcelona
Experience
2025–26Kiln 2024–25Izun 2019–240x 2014–19Facebook 2013–14Amadeus
Trained as
Aerospace engineering
Agent fleet
3,500 briefs 8,000 documents 12 models $5.4k of model time

I am a product leader working in AI systems, crypto and DeFi. I trained as an aerospace engineer, learned product at Facebook as its Ads business grew tenfold, then spent a decade building onchain — from DEX protocols at 0x to DeFi vault infrastructure at Kiln — happiest when turning a complicated financial system into something a person can simply use.

Lately I build for the pleasure of it, end to end and on my own: a product that untangles state pensions across borders, a drum machine that lives on a blockchain, and a fleet of AI agents on my own hardware that does real work, instrumented down to the cost of a single answer — about $1.60, at list prices. Always more curious than finished.

theo@gonella — ~ — zsh
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Theo Gonella — product leader & builder — Barcelona
cat about.txt
Aerospace engineer turned product leader. ~12 years shipping products, the last decade onchain. At 0x / matcha.xyz I helped take a protocol to 500+ apps and $300B+ in trading volume. These days I build at the edges: AI agent systems, onchain music, DeFi vault infrastructure.
ls work/
0x-api the leading DEX-aggregation API — $300B+ traded, powers 500+ apps (Coinbase, Robinhood, Phantom) matcha.xyz 0x's consumer swap app — best execution, plain language railnet onchain asset-management orchestration protocol — powering next-gen fund products
ls built/ # solo — design, code, deploy
expatrimony cross-border pension reconciliation → expatrimony.com loopclub a drum machine that lives entirely onchain → loopclub.xyz shillscore a signal-scoring engine for a noisy timeline agent-fleet a multi-model LLM fleet on my own metal — 3.5k briefs, 8k documents, 12 models
cat resume.txt
2025–26 kiln Head of Product, DeFi 2024–25 izun Head of Product 2019–24 0x · matcha.xyz Director of Product 2014–19 facebook Product Manager, Ads 2013–14 amadeus Product Development Analyst
links --all
→ x x.com/theogonella → github github.com/mintcloud → linkedin linkedin.com/in/theogonella → email theo.gonella@gmail.com