Benjamin Heidorn
Software Engineer at OpenRouter, Inc
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Heidorn is a software engineer and serial founder with 12 years of experience building full-stack products, blockchain games, and developer tools from Tucson, Arizona. He has led technical teams and startups—most recently founding Protocraft AI to build AI-driven file analysis and automation tools—and now contributes at OpenRouter, bringing hands-on engineering to production systems. His work spans smart contract development (on-chain NFT storage for CyberBrokers), game and platform engineering at Blockade Games, and open-source projects like a standalone crypto portfolio app, showing comfort across backend, frontend, mobile, and blockchain stacks. A former Penn State doctoral-track researcher in computer science and a physics graduate, he blends research curiosity with practical product shipping and a knack for turning experimental ideas into deployable systems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctoral Track Incomplete Computer Science, Doctoral Track Incomplete Computer Science at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at University of Washington, Seattle
English, FrenchProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
BryanHeidorn/TopicAnalysis
Feb 2022 - Apr 2024
Contributions:7 pushes in 2 years 2 months
genophenoenvo/NPN-Data
Mar 2021 - Apr 2022
USA National Phenology Network Extracted and Modified Data
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year
nationalphenologymodified
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