Product design
Product thinking before pixels: flows, interfaces and a design system shaped together with a dedicated designer — so the build starts on solid ground.
// shipping web3 products
Mario
Kenda
building apps for web3 companies
Mario runs a team that takes Web3 products from first sketch to mainnet — exchanges, lending protocols, trading dashboards and full dApps.
// seen in production atRabbitXMorpho LabsStrips FinancePaysureAdriaMed
10+_
years in software development
4_
years in Web3 development
$1B_
daily trading volume on RabbitX
$5B+_
total deposits in Morpho
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Hello
Mario Kenda is a software developer with over 10 years of experience, including 4 years in Web3. He led the frontend development of RabbitX Perps DEX from the ground up—helping the platform reach $1 billion in daily trading volume—and contributed to Morpho Labs’ dApp v2 (opens in a new tab), a non-custodial lending and borrowing protocol with over $5 billion in total deposits.
Mario specializes in frontend Web3 development using Next.js, ReactJS, and TypeScript. He also has hands-on experience with backend technologies (Node.js) and lighter smart contract development. Prior to his work at Morpho and RabbitX, he built a dApp for Strips Finance, enabling interest-rate derivatives trading on Arbitrum. His career spans InsureTech and DeFi, reflecting a deep passion for blockchain innovation.
After his tenure at Morpho, Mario shifted his focus to delivering comprehensive Web3 solutions. Collaborating with a freelance designer and a team of developers, he covers every stage of a project—from product design to frontend, backend, and essential smart contract integrations. He takes on select collaborations, oversees entire project development and continually explores emerging tools to deliver cutting-edge solutions in the Web3 ecosystem.
In parallel, Mario runs AdriaMed (opens in a new tab), his own healthcare development lab that remains a side venture alongside his primary Web3 work. It builds on his earlier path — upgrading the Think!EHR health platform at Inova and digitizing insurance claims at Paysure — so his fluency in healthcare systems is earned rather than incidental. For medical practices and diagnostic centers he builds guided online booking and bilingual solutions with EU-based processing, AES-256 encryption and GDPR compliance, storing no patient data.
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What we build
Mario and his team build any kind of app for Web3 companies, covering every stage of a project — from product design to delivery.
Frontend
Fast, responsive interfaces in Next.js, React and TypeScript — the same stack behind exchanges that have cleared a billion dollars in a day.
Backend
Node.js services and APIs that keep the app talking to the chain, indexers and third-party systems — reliably, at all hours.
Smart contracts
Wallet connections and smart-contract integrations, handled with care — the part of a dApp where mistakes cost real money.
how we work
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Scope & design
Goals, flows and a design system — shaped with the designer.
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Build
Frontend and backend, shipped in steady increments with previews.
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Integrate
Wallets, smart contracts and third-party services — carefully and safely.
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Launch
From testnet to mainnet — and the iterations after.
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Track record
A few products Mario helped take to production — and what they did once there.
$1B+_
daily trading volume
RabbitX
decentralized perpetuals exchange
Led the frontend of the Starknet-based exchange — security-first, 20x leverage, zero gas fees and 24/7 liquidity.
- ReactJS
- Ethers.js
- Hardhat
$5B+_
total deposits
Morpho (opens in a new tab)
non-custodial lending protocol
Contributed to the v2 app — core server-component architecture and loading waterfalls, wallet connections and the design system.
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
24/7_
interest-rate markets
Strips Finance
interest-rate derivatives dApp
Developed and maintained the dApp’s frontend on Arbitrum — trading, speculating and hedging rates on a cross-chain AMM.
- ReactJS
- Ethers.js
- Arbitrum
AES-256_
encrypted, EU-hosted
AdriaMed (opens in a new tab)
healthcare development lab
A studio Mario founded and builds himself — guided online booking, safety questionnaires and automated emails and PDF summaries for clinics and diagnostic centers. EU processing, GDPR by default, no patient database.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- GDPR
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Resume
education
2017–present
FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE, MARIBOR
Master of Computer Science and Information Technologies
2014–2017
FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE, MARIBOR
Engineer of Computer Science and Information Technologies
2010–2014
SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING, PTUJ
High School Graduate
employment
Jan 2025 – present
INDEPENDENT
WEB3 APP DEVELOPMENT
Web3 app development for companies across the ecosystem — from product design to frontend, backend and smart-contract integrations.
- After leaving Morpho in January 2025, Mario has been working independently with a team of developers and a freelance designer, covering every stage of a project — from concept to launch.
2025 – present
ADRIAMED
FOUNDER & ENGINEER
AdriaMed is a development lab for healthcare, building custom software for medical practices and diagnostic centers — guided online booking, pre-exam safety questionnaires and bilingual (SL/EN) clinic websites. Processing runs inside the EU (servers in Frankfurt), with AES-256 encryption and GDPR compliance by default; no patient data is stored.
- Alongside his independent Web3 work, Mario founded and runs AdriaMed (opens in a new tab) — a natural continuation of his earlier work in healthcare systems (the Think!EHR platform at Inova, claims digitization at Paysure), this time aimed at software for medical practices and diagnostic centers.
- Built the guided multi-step booking wizard and a safety questionnaire whose screening logic halts submission on risky responses and routes the patient to call; the backend auto-generates a formatted HTML email and a formatted A4 PDF summary with the attached findings, with a mailto fallback so the order persists even if a system fails. In production at MDT&T d.o.o., Maribor (Diagnostic Center Bled group).
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025
MORPHO LABS
SENIOR FRONTEND DEVELOPER
Morpho is a permissionless, non-custodial lending protocol on Ethereum and Base with over $5 billion in total deposits — one of the largest lending protocols in DeFi.
- Contributed to Morpho Labs’ v2 app (app.morpho.org) (opens in a new tab) from scratch — core architecture for server components and loading waterfalls, wallet connections, and the design system.
Sep 2021 – Sep 2024
RABBITX
RabbitX is a global permissionless perpetuals exchange built on Starknet — building the most secure and liquid global derivatives network, giving you 24/7 access to global markets anywhere in the world, with 20x leverage.
Oct 2022 – Sep 2024
LEAD FRONTEND WEB3 DEVELOPER
- Built a decentralized perpetual exchange (landing.rabbitx.io, testnet.rabbitx.io) from scratch shortly after the first app launched on mainnet — security-first, blazing fast, with zero gas fees and a superior user experience. ReactJS, Ethers.js and Hardhat.
Sep 2021 – Oct 2022
SENIOR FRONTEND WEB3 DEVELOPER
- Developed from scratch and maintained a dApp for trading interest-rate derivatives on Arbitrum (app.strips.finance) — trading, speculation and hedging of interest rates on STRIPS’ cross-chain AMM. ReactJS, Ethers.js and Hardhat.
Feb 2019 – Oct 2021
PAYSURE SOLUTIONS LTD.
LEAD FRONTEND DEVELOPER
Paysure Solutions is an InsureTech company (founded May 2017) building a smart-payments platform that digitizes insurance claims — automated, context-aware claims processing with seamless real-time payouts, built to banking-grade security standards.
- Led the frontend of Paysure’s insurance-claims products — multiple Angular web apps and an Ionic 4 mobile app for filing, processing and paying out claims, replacing call-center queues and paperwork with a digital, largely automated flow.
- Delivered the suite of apps to one of the biggest insurance companies in the world.
July 2018 – Feb 2019
POVIO LABS (YC W14)
FRONTEND DEVELOPER
Povio Labs is a Y-combinator backed company that has built apps for Silicon Valley’s fastest growing tech companies, like Flexport, Toymail, Editas Medicine, Rainforest QA, Flaviar, and Trulo.
- Helped build a web app for booking exclusive flights for Aero (aero.com (opens in a new tab)) — the company behind the next big thing in air travel.
- Rebuilt mosaix.ai on Next.js with server-side rendering (SSR).
September 2017 – July 2018
INOVA IT D.O.O.
FRONTEND DEVELOPER
- Upgraded the Think!EHR health data platform into an end-to-end, modular solution supporting the care process of chronic patients.
July 2016 – August 2017
U-CENTRIX D.O.O.
WEB DEVELOPER
- Developed and maintained critical components of a travel-booking website — the reservation overview and final booking page — using Angular components.
Jan 2016 – Feb 2018
UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR
WEB DEVELOPER
- Built custom plugins, templates and functions for WordPress-based sites.
- Developed automation scripts and apps for fast content publishing.
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Get in touch
If you're building something in Web3 — or thinking about it — drop a line by phone, e-mail or through the form.
- Phone
- +386 41 855 882
- Skype
- mariokenda