Juan Manuel
G. L.

Lead Solutions Architect building decentralized systems at the intersection of Web3, AI, and philosophy.

Lead Solutions Architect @ Toeshee Hedera Dev Ambassador Colombia Agentic AI Web3 Blockchain Cloud Architecture
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Who I am

I'm a solutions architect and blockchain engineer based in Medellín, Colombia. I currently lead architecture at Toeshee, where CX meets Web3 — designing decentralized systems that bring real-world customer experience to the crypto economy.


I also serve as Developer Ambassador for Hedera in Colombia, driving developer training, community building, and ecosystem growth for the Hedera network across the region.


Right now I'm deep into agentic AI — building autonomous AI systems at Toeshee that transform how Web3 customer experience works. As a Hedera Ambassador, I also contributed to the Hedera Agent Kit, bringing AI agent capabilities to the Hedera ecosystem.


My background spans IoT, computational intelligence, tokenization, and enterprise blockchain. I've led 15+ technology projects across energy markets, mining, fintech, and Web3 — always at the edge where emerging tech meets pragmatic business value.


I believe in the cypherpunk ethos: privacy is a right, code is speech, and decentralization is the path forward.

Currently building agentic AI + Web3 CX solutions at Toeshee — the world's first crypto-focused nearshore BPO.

What I've been building

2024 — PRESENT
Lead Solutions Architect
Toeshee — Web3 CX Division
Leading technical architecture for the Web3 customer experience platform. Implementing agentic AI systems to automate and scale decentralized CX solutions at the intersection of BPO services and blockchain technology.
2024 — PRESENT
Developer Ambassador
Hedera — Colombia
Driving developer adoption, training programs, and MVP initiatives for the Hedera ecosystem across Colombia. Contributor to the Hedera Agent Kit, bringing agentic AI capabilities to the network.
2024
Technical Ambassador
ICP Colombia
Led developer training and MVP creation initiatives for the Internet Computer Protocol ecosystem in Colombia.
2018 — 2024
Tokenization Leader
XM — Energy Markets
Spearheaded blockchain adoption in Colombia's energy market. Led technical architecture for tokenization solutions and smart contract development in the regulated energy sector.
2022 — 2023
Blockchain Architect
WES-IT
Led R&D initiatives in blockchain implementation for mining and financial sectors. Designed distributed systems for supply chain traceability.

Tech stack

Blockchain

  • Solidity / EVM
  • Hedera (HTS, HCS)
  • ICP / Motoko
  • Smart Contracts
  • DeFi Protocols
  • Tokenization

Languages

  • Rust
  • Python
  • Solidity
  • TypeScript
  • Go

Cloud / Infra

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD Pipelines

AI / Agents

  • Agentic AI Systems
  • Hedera Agent Kit
  • LLM Orchestration
  • AI + Web3 Integration
  • Computational Intelligence

HAK plugins

Five production plugins extending the Hedera Agent Kit — on-chain intelligence, DeFi execution, and cross-chain routing from natural language.

1,332 total installs 4 published packages growing month over month

> hak-saucerswap-plugin

DEX integration: swaps, liquidity management, and yield farming positions on SaucerSwap — the leading DEX on Hedera.

> npm > src ↓ 745 installs

> hak-pyth-plugin

Oracle integration: real-time and historical price feeds for any asset via the Pyth Network price oracle.

> npm > src ↓ 309 installs

> hak-stader-plugin

Liquid staking: stake HBAR via Stader to receive HBARX — earning yield while staying liquid across the Hedera ecosystem.

> npm > src ↓ 136 installs

> hak-layerzero-plugin

Cross-chain bridge: GMP messaging and OFT token transfers between Hedera and 150+ EVM chains via LayerZero V2.

> npm > src ↓ 142 installs

> hak-axelar-plugin

Cross-chain bridge: ITS token transfers and GMP messaging across 60+ chains via Axelar Amplifier from Hedera.

> npm > src publishing soon

> products

> hbadge.xyz

POAP-style badge platform built natively on Hedera. Mint, claim, and showcase achievement badges as real HTS NFTs — fully on-chain, no wrappers.

> live > src

> aivylabs.xyz

Deploy AI agents on Hedera in 60 seconds. Aivy abstracts the agentic AI stack so builders can ship autonomous on-chain agents without the infrastructure overhead. 🏆 3rd place — APEX Hackathon

> live > src > award

What I care about

> Cypherpunk Philosophy

Privacy is not something to negotiate. Strong cryptography, decentralized identity, and sovereign data are not luxuries — they're requirements for a free digital society.

> Web3 Adoption

The gap between blockchain potential and real-world usage is where I work. Making decentralized tech accessible, useful, and invisible to end users is the real engineering challenge.

> Developer Communities

As Hedera Ambassador for Colombia, I'm focused on growing the local blockchain developer ecosystem through hands-on workshops, hackathons, and open-source contributions.

> Agentic AI

Autonomous AI agents that can reason, plan, and execute on-chain — that's the next frontier. I'm building these systems at Toeshee and contributed to the Hedera Agent Kit to make it happen on decentralized infrastructure.

> Philosophy

Platonic idealism as the pursuit of essential forms, scholastic criticism as a rigorous method of knowledge, and Stoicism as the discipline of living. These are not academic interests — they are methods. The question of how language limits thought, where concepts break, and what endures beneath appearances is the same question whether you are reading Aquinas or writing a smart contract. Philosophy is the operating system underneath the code.

// homenaje · ingeborg maschmann · 1921–2023

“Meine pädagogische Lebensreise im Zeitalter der Extreme.”

My pedagogical life journey in the Age of Extremes. — subtitle of her memoir, 2010

Ingeborg Maschmann lived 102 years and spent 36 of them shaping what would become Leuphana University Lüneburg — not as an administrator, but as a thinker. She studied history, German, philosophy, and English during the war years, took her doctorate in 1947 under the reformist pedagogue Peter Petersen in Jena, and then watched the East German authorities dismantle Petersen's work for political reasons. She crossed west and spent the rest of her career keeping those ideas alive.

What stays with me is her intellectual honesty: when scholars later confronted uncomfortable truths about Petersen's compromises during the Nazi era, Maschmann did not defend him — she acknowledged them. That combination of fidelity to an idea and clarity about its limits is exactly the disposition philosophy asks for. In 2000 she created a foundation to fund young scholars, extending her pedagogical mission beyond her own lifetime. She became Leuphana's first honorary citizen. The university holds an annual Ingeborg-Maschmann-Day in her name.

My own studies — Platonic idealism, scholastic method, Stoic discipline — circle the same question her life answered in practice: how do you hold rigorous ideas with integrity across time, under pressure, inside institutions that can always co-opt or collapse? Twice scholarship recipient of the Ingeborg Maschmann Stiftung.

Reach out

Open to conversations about architecture, blockchain, or collaboration opportunities.