Mauro Argañaraz has a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems (USAL 2005) and a Master’s degree in Software Engineering (UNSL 2010). Since 2018 he is pursuing his PhD in Computer Engineering at UNSL and has focused his doctoral thesis on the security aspects of the Ethereum ecosystem around the development, deployment and execution of smart contracts. He participates in Latin American crypto communities and is a speaker on topics such as bitcoin, smart contracts and decentralized finance. He has more than 20 years of experience developing software and managing teams and for the last year he has been the leader of Clave’s web3 team.