DMDavid Mendoza
The Mendoza · Vol. X · No. 26 · EditionLos Angeles · Remote · 2026


Ecosystem Builder · Blockchain & Payments · Available 2026

David
Mendoza.

I build things, measure them, and stay close to the communities that use them.

The Correspondence
Read on
§ Numbers

The work, in figures you can verify.

$300K
28 grants distributed
115K+
Community managed
24,800
Dashboard views
30+
Conferences attended · multiple booths across the circuit
§ I. The Profile

Builder, analyst, community steward.

I've spent the last few years living inside the Flexa and Amp ecosystems — running the social channels (115K+ members across X, Reddit, Discord, and Telegram), distributing roughly $300K through the Amp Grant Program across 28 grants, building Dune dashboards the community relies on, leading integrations on tools like DefiLlama, Zapper, and DeBank, attending 30+ conferences with multiple booths across the circuit, and producing events from Solana Summer House to ApresETH at ETHDenver.

Before that, eight years leading ERP and application development at Tireco. I joined when the company ran one warehouse in Southern California; by the time I left they were running 30+ nationwide, with the data infrastructure and three ecommerce sites and three mobile apps I helped ship powering most of it.

I care about building things that are useful and honest: a dashboard that gives a community real numbers, a grant program that funds creators doing real work, a site like spenders.xyz that documents real crypto payments instead of just claiming they exist.

§ II. Selected Work

What I've shipped.

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Acronym Foundation · 2024 — Present

Amp Grant Program

28 grants — 17 content grants (each committing to multiple deliverables), 5 event, 3 dev tooling, 2 ecosystem. Helped grow creators including @fluffyonchain, @NeverGoon, and @cryptosmiff.

~$300K · 28 grantsInternal
§ III. The Record

Ten years. Here's the breakdown.

2026 — Now
Active

Developer Advocate & Community Manager

Flexa

Run @ampdotxyz day-to-day. Operate the Amp Grant Program end-to-end, including a creator program funding spending content and ecosystem coverage. Drive wallet integrations — created an RFP distributed to prospective wallet partners as an incentive and onboarding tool. Represent Flexa at industry conferences. Serve as the connection point between community feedback and the Flexa team.

2023 — 2025

Community Manager & Ecosystem Builder

Acronym Foundation

Built and ran what the Amp / Anvil / Digital Spenders Club ecosystem leaned on. Led integrations on DefiLlama, Zapper, and DeBank — getting the protocols listed and tracked where the broader DeFi community looks. Distributed roughly $300K across 28 grants — 17 content grants (each committing to multiple deliverables), 5 event, 3 dev tooling, 2 ecosystem — helping grow creators including @fluffyonchain, @NeverGoon, and @cryptosmiff. Owned and grew @ampdotxyz and the broader Amp community to 115K+ across X, Reddit, Discord, and Telegram — overseeing dozens of moderators and admins across all channels. Produced Solana Summer House (1,500+ over 3 days), ApresETH at ETHDenver (400+), and a Bitcoin Pizza Day party in LA (200+). Attended 30+ conferences with multiple booths across the circuit — Best Booth at Consensus 2025.

2022 — 2023

Developer Advocate & Community Manager

Flexa

Built the first Amp analytics dashboard on Dune — the ecosystem's first real window into live network health data. Open-sourced analytics utilities the community picked up and ran with. Worked directly with developers on Flexa and Amp integrations, collected feedback, and brought it back to the team.

2015 — 2022

Application Development Manager

Tireco, Inc.

Led a team of 5 engineers — backend and frontend — owning the NetSuite ERP platform for one of the largest private tire distributors in North America. Joined when the company ran a single warehouse in Southern California; by the time I left, they were running 30+ nationwide. Deployed 3 ecommerce sites and launched 3 mobile applications, all fully automated into NetSuite. Built extensive NetSuite customizations across every department, improving productivity and eliminating manual processes at scale. Built and maintained the reporting infrastructure executives and finance teams relied on: KPIs, dashboards, saved searches, and operational reports. REST/ODBC pipelines moving millions of records reliably between systems.

2013 — 2015

Software Engineer

NetSuite Programmer

Built custom analytics, reporting, and financial dashboards that supported decision-making. Built and maintained data integrations between NetSuite and external systems via web services and ODBC. Automated workflows and business logic that reduced manual work and kept data consistent across the platform.

§ IV. The Stack

Tools I work with.

Blockchain Analytics

  • Dune Analytics
  • Onchain transaction data
  • Smart contract reading
  • Ecosystem health metrics

Data & BI

  • SQL
  • NetSuite Analytics
  • KPIs & saved searches
  • Operational reporting

Engineering

  • JavaScript
  • SuiteScript
  • REST APIs
  • ODBC integrations
  • Open-source tooling

Ecosystem

  • Chain-agnostic · Solana · Ethereum · Base · Zcash
  • Amp / Flexa payments network
  • Anvil · Digital Spenders Club
  • DeFi integrations · DefiLlama · Zapper · DeBank
  • Developer communities
  • Grant programs · ecosystem events

AI Tooling

  • Claude · Claude Code
  • ChatGPT · Codex
  • Daily use for building, writing, automating

Languages

  • English (native)
  • Spanish (native)
§ V. The Receipts

Everything is live. Click any of it.

No screenshots. No claims. Sources.

Code & Projects

The things I’ve shipped
§ VI. The Sign-Off

Proof of work,
not proof of title.

If you're building something where community, data, and developer advocacy all have to be done by one person — and done well — I'd like to hear about it.

info@david-mendoza.com →
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