About
Anestis Finstad
Senior fullstack engineer with 8 years building high-performance Web3, DeFi, and AI products in React/Next.js and TypeScript. Most recently delivered trading-UI features at BitMEX while solo-building and shipping a portfolio of live, revenue-generating AI products. Strong across the whole stack — front-end performance, AWS infrastructure, payments, and production LLM pipelines.
Based in Athens, Greece.
Web3 / DeFi frontend
Built production trading UIs at BitMEX and led MonkeyDex, a Solana DEX with sub-100ms quote integration and fully on-chain copy-trading. Fluent in wallet auth, on-chain flows, and high-frequency real-time interfaces.
Senior fullstack
Takes products from architecture to live, monetized deployment alone — Next.js/React front ends on AWS (Lambda fleets, Aurora/RDS, DynamoDB, SQS), Stripe billing, and Postgres/Mongo data layers. Owns the whole stack.
AI / LLM engineering
Builds production LLM systems: autonomous content pipelines, tool-calling agents, multi-agent orchestration, citation-enforced anti-hallucination, and prompt-cost optimization (cut one pipeline ~78%).
Experience
Founder & Software Engineer
Independent / Founder
- ›The World Now (the-world-now.com) — built and operate a live AI news platform on an interactive 3D globe; an autonomous round-the-clock pipeline has published 6,000+ articles, grew Ahrefs DR 0→15 in three months, and I cut AI generation cost ~78% via prompt caching.
- ›Sitful (sitful.com) — shipped an on-device macOS posture coach in Tauri 2 + Rust, fusing Apple Vision pose detection with AirPods head-motion; live marketing site with Stripe payments, app in notarization.
- ›staqd.ai — launched a marketplace of 67 original AI design skills and buy-once solution templates on Next.js 16 + Tailwind v4, Better Auth, and Stripe.
- ›spinyield (spinyield.com) — launched an ad-revenue platform for AI coding agents with a Proof-of-Inference anti-fraud layer and a double-entry ledger on AWS Aurora Serverless v2 + DynamoDB + SQS, CDK IaC.
Frontend Consultant
BitMEX
- ›Migrated the entire BitMEX blog from WordPress to a headless Contentful CMS + Next.js stack (bitmex.com/blog) — category filtering, WEBP/AVIF image optimization, and multi-language support (EN/CN/ES/RU/VI).
- ›Built a custom employee-verification tool (bitmex.com/app/verification) that lets anyone confirm whether a person claiming to be BitMEX staff is genuine — an anti-impersonation defense against social-engineering scams.
- ›Delivered high-performance React/Next.js features across the BitMEX trading UI.
- ›Ran regular client and product-team sessions, translating requirements into polished front-end solutions.
Lead Frontend Developer
MonkeyDex
- ›Architected the Next.js + Tailwind UI for a Solana DEX and copy-trading platform with sub-100ms Jupiter quote integration.
- ›Shipped a fully on-chain copy-trading solution on Solana and led community, partnerships, and growth for the platform.
Frontend Engineer (Web3 Social)
Contribute.xyz
- ›Built the React interface for a $4.7M-funded "Web3 LinkedIn" with Solana wallet auth and verifiable-anonymous profiles.
- ›Implemented on-chain salary streaming, decentralized communities, and a reusable component library with Zustand state; converted Figma designs to production React.
Frontend Consultant
Cegal (formerly SYSCO), Norway
- ›Shipped a government-funded upskilling portal for immigrants from concept to launch in 14 months.
- ›Modernised Toyota Norway's fleet tools and a facilities IoT dashboard with Vue.js and Vuetify.
Education
Ubiqum Academy, Barcelona — Front-End Development Program
2019 · Graduated early with top score
Languages
English
Native
Norwegian
Native
Greek
Native
Spanish
Intermediate