lalocripto

Lalo García

Solving real problems using web3 in LATAM

Projects

Bando

🔵🇲🇽 We connected Base to the Mexican financial system used by more than 70 million Mexicans that had a volume of $31 billion USD in 2023 🔵🇲🇽Solidity, React, Django, Docker, Python, TypeScript, Terraform

Skills

Product Management
Data Analysis
Business Development
Community
Growth

Experience

  • Bitso - Co-founder
    December 2023 - Present

    We're building a crypto broker for the global south based on the DeFi mullet, fintech in the front and DeFi in the back. In our MVP we connected Base to the Mexican financial system, users can send a local wire and get USDC and other assets in Base in a couple of minutes.

  • KillB - Head of Product
    August 2022 - September 2023

    At KillB – as Head of Product & Business development I was integral in building web3 infrastructure, providing services such as on-off ramps, USD savings, and local stable coins to global entities in the financial ecosystem.

  • Bando - Product Owner
    December 2020 - November 2021

    Led the derivatives product initiatives, and developed "conversions" allowing the trading engine to find the best route to get any crypto offered in the exchange

  • Movii - Head of Crypto
    October 2021 - October 2022

    My tenure as Head of Crypto at Movii, a +4M user NeoBank in Colombia, involved launching the country's first SFC-regulated crypto services within a financial sandbox. With a commitment to banking the unbanked, we set a precedent for fintech innovation in Latin America.

  • Espacio Cripto - Co-founder
    November 2020 - Present

    Espacio Cripto is one of the most listened-to crypto podcasts in Spanish. This project was born with the objective of creating high-value crypto content in Spanish, we want to help people understand crypto in the most impartial and positive way. We never speculate with prices and we always try to keep a realistic view of this amazing industry.

    In November 2021 we partnered with Sonoro Media, the leading podcast production company in LATAM to level up our content quality and to expand our reach