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Hi, I'm Ricardo.

I partner with founders and operators to ship software, trading systems, and AI agents that move the business forward.

Faro, Portugal

Ricardo Barroca

Impact by the numbers

Real capital deployed, real revenue generated, real wins on the board.

Fund Managed

$50M+

Live trading strategy at GR Financial Group, managing real capital since 2022.

Generated YTD

+$10M

Year-to-date alpha generated for clients. 8% above market, 1.57 Sharpe.

Hackathons Won

10+

International wins across ETH Global (Cannes, Prague, Brussels), Chainlink, Polkadot & AWS.

Whatever you're building, I ship it

Apps, SaaS and websites. Trading strategies and quant systems. AI agents for marketing, accounting, and ops. You bring the problem and I bring the execution.

Apps, SaaS, Web

Production-grade products, shipped fast.

Full-stack apps, SaaS platforms and marketing sites, from landing page to live product. Next.js, TypeScript, Postgres, the boring-but-reliable stack. You get a codebase you can actually own.

Agents / Live▲ 1,284 tasks
47 hrs

Saved this week

142
Reports
386
Emails
54
Leads
Quant, Trading Systems

Trading strategies, from backtest to live capital.

Systematic strategies, execution infra, and risk tooling. Five years running live trading desks and building alpha models. Walk-forward validated, PnL-tracked, deployed on real venues, not toy notebooks.

Strategy / Live▲ +$12,480
+34.8%

YTD return, net of fees

2.4
Sharpe
62%
Win %
-4.2%
Max DD
AI Agents, Automation

Agents that run the work your team shouldn't.

Custom agents for marketing, accounting, sales qualification, support, and back-office ops. Every agent is integrated with the tools you already use, logged, and measurable. They are workers, not chatbots.

support
sales
qualify
booking

From first call to shipped

No endless discovery, no $50k design phase. Just a call, then weekly releases until it ships.

  1. Strategy Call

    30 min. We pin down the business outcome, not a feature list.

  2. Build & Ship

    Weekly releases from day one. You see real progress every Friday.

About me

Ricardo Barroca

I'm a self-taught software developer, and the passion came from entrepreneurship. Long before AI made building easy, I had a vision, and I had to learn to code so I could ship it myself.

Financial markets were the first obsession. I started building trading strategies and algorithms that actually made money, which landed me at GR Financial Group. Three years of R&D produced live quant strategies that have generated +$10M for the firm, and kickstarted my journey into algorithmic trading.

From there I fell in love with AI agents, well before “AI agent” was a buzzword. At Dengun I led the AI innovation R&D track, shipping production agents and end-to-end automations before the rest of the market caught on.

Today I'm building my own quantitative predictive-markets fund, Polytier, which specializes in predictability models across weather forecasts, crypto prices and sports outcomes, combined in an orthogonal approach to extract alpha.

Apps, SaaS, trading systems, agents. Whatever the stack, the bar is the same. I ship.

I like to build things

10+ wins across ETH Global (Cannes, Prague, Bangkok, Brussels), Chainlink, Polkadot, AWS, and more from 2022 to today.

Total prize earnings

$0+

Earned across international hackathons and technical events.

10+
Wins
10
Countries
2022-2026
Active

Selected results

  • SmartCon - Chainlink

    OpenMesh and Space and Time Winner

    $4,000
  • ETH Global Cannes

    Hedera 2nd, 0G 2nd (Alpha Dawg)

    $3,500
  • Sub0 Polkadot Bangkok

    2nd Place

    $625

Showing the last 6 events

2024
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November 15-17, 2024

ETH Global Bangkok

Bangkok, Thailand

Couldn't pitch due to venue food poisoning

Major Ethereum hackathon during Devcon with 1000+ attendees, 68+ protocols, 61+ workshops, and $750,000 in prizes. Built innovative blockchain solutions on themes including ZK Proofs, AI x Crypto, and Layer 2s.

2025
A

November 1-2, 2025

Algarve Buildathon - AI Agents for Regional Challenges

Faro, Portugal

€100 vouchers + Raspberry Pi AI HAT+

2nd Place

Two-day AI buildathon hosted by Algarve Evolution at UALG Tec Campus. Built an AI-agent solution for a regional challenge and placed 2nd overall.

E

May 30 - June 1, 2025

ETH Global Prague

Prague, Czech Republic

$350

2x Track Winner

Upcoming major Ethereum hackathon with 800+ attendees, 13+ protocols, 29+ workshops, and $150,000 in prizes. Themes include Zero Knowledge Proofs, AI x Crypto, DeFi, and Layer 2 scaling solutions.

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May 29, 2025

Pragma Prague

Prague, Czech Republic

Upcoming event focused on pragmatic blockchain solutions and development practices. Pre-event for ETH Global Prague 2025.

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January 31 - February 14, 2025

Agentic Ethereum

Online

Upcoming hackathon exploring the future of autonomous agents on Ethereum. Focus on building AI-powered solutions for decentralized applications and smart contract automation.

2026
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April 30 - May 3, 2026

ETH Global Cannes

Cannes, France

$3,500

Hedera 2nd , 0G 2nd (Alpha Dawg)

Flagship ETH Global hackathon on the French Riviera. Shipped Alpha Dawg - an agentic market-intelligence system - and took home $3,500 across two bounty tracks: 2nd on Hedera × ioBuilders (Naryo Builder Challenge) and 2nd on 0G (Best DeFi App).

I've worked with people from all over the world

Got an idea? Let's ship it.

30-minute call. No pitch deck. Just your problem and a concrete path to production.

Book a Strategy Call

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