Yorke Rhodes - Developer
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Hyperlane

New York City

Founding Engineer

Solving fragmentation of blockchain networks with an economically secure, low latency interoperability protocol. Built for seamless developer experience across scaling solutions.

Present

April 2022

Gauntlet

San Francisco

Smart Contract Specialist

Built Gauntlet's 1st on-chain protocol: Aera Finance. Risk aware, capital efficient treasury management solution for DAOs. Audited by Spearbit. Would have prevented the Terra collapse.

May 2022

December 2021

Celo

San Francisco

Partner, Smart Contracts Lead

Code owner on production contracts for stablecoin and phone number ownership protocols. Orchestrated DAO governance with security oriented contract release process leveraging OpenZeppelin audits and Certora formal verification.

December 2021

March 2020

Contractor, Protocol Engineering

Built first production implementation of Coinbase Rosetta, an abstraction used for exchange accounting, low level tracing of value transfer, and high security offline staking services for Coinbase Custody customers.

March 2020

August 2019

Intern, Protocol Engineering

Implemented Proof of Stake validator features and slashing conditions, optimized oracle exchange rate reporting for stablecoin protocol, and contributed to privacy preserving enhancements to proof of phone number ownership protocol.

August 2019

April 2019

Faculty Instructor

Taught full-credit course (2x) in the Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems (CoFES) alongside Professor Manolo Sanchez and Topl founder / CTO James Aman.

May 2020

September 2018

Rice Blockchain President

Founded student organization focused on blockchain education, research, development and evangelism. Led 50+ members in maintaining a newsletter, organizing workshops, and meeting with industry professionals. Repeat host of Houston Ethereum Meetup.

May 2020

September 2017

Student, Computer Science BSE

May 2020

September 2016

IBM

New York City

Intern, Blockchain Garage

Developed the IBM Blockchain Starter Kit: an open-source bootstrap tool for applications on Hyperledger. Includes build, test, deploy framework for goLang and NodeJS. Shipped a CLI for vastly improved developer experience.

August 2018

May 2018

ConsenSys

New York City

Intern

Built the first Token Curated Registry (TCR) for the adChain registry, a whitelist of trusted advertisers for consumption by token holding web publishers. Shipped a generic ERC20 voting standard with partial locking and commit reveal (PLCR) scheme.

August 2017

May 2017

Intern

Worked on early smart contract prototypes like Proof of Physical Address: an automated protocol for verifying mailing address ownership with secrets sent via snail mail.

August 2016

June 2016

Bronx Science

New York City

Robotics Programming & Electronics Lead

May 2016

September 2015

Cancer Society President

May 2016

September 2015

Student

May 2016

September 2012