Luis (@gitpusha) on Gelato, Smart Contract Automation, & Off Chain Infrastructure

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Today’s guest is Luis (aka gitpusha), co founder of Gelato network. Luis has a fascinating story. He taught himself to code about 5 years ago and jumped into crypto before finding his way into smart contract automation & ultimately the founding of Gelato Network - a protocol for decentralized smart contract automation. In this episode, we deep dive Gelato’s network architecture, how the Gelato team approaches building developer APIs and tooling, and the specifics of professionally running off chain infrastructure.

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00:00 Intro

3:50 How Luis got into crypto

6:30 Teaching himself to code

9:45 The founding of Gelato

13:45 Managing tradeoffs between developer experience and decentralization

19:20 Hardware requirements for Gelato Checkers and Gelato Executors

24:22 Gelato Checker client in depth

30:00 Overcoming technical challenges

33:35 DevOps skills

40:10 Advice for building developer APIs and tooling

45:35 How to use Gelato in your own application

48:50 What does Luis hope crypto looks like in 10 years?

Luis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gitpusha
Gelato Network: https://www.gelato.network/