Adrian Brink
Co-Founder at Heliax
Switzerland
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Top SchoolAdrian Brink is a founder and protocol engineer with 11+ years building core blockchain infrastructure and a clear mission to create an "Internet of Blockchains." As Co-Founder of Anoma and Heliax and a former co-founder of Cryptium Labs, he blends hands-on Rust development (notably on the Namada PoS L1) with product and validator management at scale. He helped scale research engineering teams focused on protocol, PL, and ZK crypto, and serves on the Anoma Foundation board while remaining active in the Cosmos ecosystem. His work emphasizes deterministic-finality consensus, proof-carrying data and IBC to decouple state machines from assets—enabling cross-chain asset composability like using BTC in EVM contexts. Based in Switzerland, he pairs academic CS training with startup execution, having moved projects from research to production and successful exits. Beyond code, he’s a frequent speaker and writer advocating mass adoption of decentralized ledgers.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at IT-Universitetet i KøbenhavnBachelor of Science - BS Business Management, Bachelor of Science - BS Business Management at Cass Business School
English, German, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
276reputation
4kreached
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Github Skills (13)
rust10
blockchain10
cli10
testing9
zkp8
cuda6
authentication6
parse-platform6
ios6
nvidia6
linux6
amazon-ec26
amazon-web-services6
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
namada-net/namada
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Rust implementation of Namada, a Proof-of-Stake L1 for interchain asset-agnostic privacy
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 66 reviews, 13 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase related to the Namada client. The user renamed command-line interface (CLI) options and updated tests to reflect the changes. Furthermore, the user added new functionalities in the form of setting Tendermint consensus parameters and modified the codebase to fix clippy warnings and format errors.
interchainrustblockchainprivacyzkp
tendermint/go-ethereum
May 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:9 PRs, 19 pushes, 33 branches in 11 months
ethereumgolangblockchainethereum-protocol
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