Blaine Malone
Co-Founder & CEO at Cloaked
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlaine Malone is a privacy-focused founder and engineer with a decade of experience building secure, production-grade crypto infrastructure and wallets. As Co-Founder & CEO of Cloaked he’s designing a mobile wallet and API that keeps on-chain activity private while ensuring users retain direct control of funds, drawing on senior protocol work scaling Optimism’s Superchain. Previously a staff engineer at Gemini and contributor to the Optimism repo, he has deep expertise in deployment automation, contract releases, and custody systems. He pairs hands-on backend and smart-contract experience with product instincts honed by founding a specialty coffee shop, reflecting an uncommon mix of technical rigor and everyday operational grit.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science at Queen's University BelfastAS/A-Levels Chemistry Biology Computing Engineering, AS/A-Levels Chemistry Biology Computing Engineering at St Pauls Bessbrook
Github Skills (13)
autoscaling10
script10
scale10
solidity10
opt10
ethereum10
optim10
scaling10
deployer10
ovp9
rollupjs9
ovirt9
ovf9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum-optimism/optimism
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Optimism is Ethereum, scaled.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:244 reviews, 77 PRs, 290 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Blaine contributed to the deployment scripts and core contracts within the Optimism repository. Their work involved fixing typos, removing extra spaces, and addressing comments in the deployment scripts, which suggests they were working to improve the readability and maintainability of the code. They also added a proxy in front of the OPStackManager, refactored the code, and implemented release-based contract deployment. The user's contributions were essential for deploying and managing the core components of the Optimism system.
rollupl2-scalingovmethereumblockchain
ethereum-optimism/superchain-ops
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
superchain-ops allows builders to create and execute tasks on EVM chains.
Contributions:601 reviews, 235 PRs, 822 pushes in 11 months
devopsethereummultsigoptimism-l2
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