Fermin
Rodriguez
Penelas

(Head of Product, Ripio)

I build digital products. At work and in my free time. Head of Product at Ripio, based in Buenos Aires.

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(01) Photos I took

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Gravel road through araucaria forest
Black and white close-up of a horse's eye
Magellanic penguin in tall grass
Three gulls flying over the sea
Horse standing in a lake
Iguazú Falls cascades
Biblioteca Marciana facade in Venice
Elephant seal on a pebble beach
Cow by a mountain lagoon
Photo 1 by Fermin
Biker on an araucaria forest trail
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(02) Experience

Company Role Scope Years
Ripio Head of Product I lead the product, design and marketing teams at Ripio, building LatAm's crypto infrastructure with our stablecoin issuance and institutional on/off-ramp and crypto-as-a-service APIs. 2024 — present
6 local fiat-backed stablecoins wARS wBRL wCOP wPEN wCLP wMXN
wAL30 first tokenization of an Argentine sovereign bond
Partners Mercado Pago Coinbase Invertir Online
Buenbit CPO Transformed an exchange into a multi-asset-class savings and investment app. 2024
Pedidos Ya Group Product Manager Led the pricing and incentives domain across five teams. 2022 — 2023
belo CPO Led the product and UX team for the wallet, exchange, and card. 2021 — 2022
Mercado Pago Product Manager Investment and savings products, with 22M+ Latin Americans invested. 2019 — 2021
Media Lab Growth Analyst Lead generation for influencer marketing through automated pipelines. 2017 — 2019
iBillionaire Growth Analyst Owned marketing/growth and parts of the product. 2016 — 2017

(03) Projects I built

P.01

comparapix.ar

Compare PIX quotes to pay in Brazil from Argentina.

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cedears.com

Real-time quotes and data for Argentine CEDEARs.

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comparadolar.ar

Real-time dollar exchange rates.

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comparatasas.ar

Compare yields on interest-bearing accounts and digital wallets.

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trueque.ferminrp.com

Swap, deposit, and withdraw local stablecoins.

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