Bruce Riley
Software Engineer at Wormhole Labs
Naperville, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBruce Riley is a seasoned software engineer with over four decades of technical experience and a recent focus on blockchain interoperability as a back-end developer at Wormhole Labs. He has a long track record in low-latency trading systems and high-performance software from senior engineering roles at Jump Trading, Green Light Trading, and DRW Trading Group. At Wormhole he contributed to the widely used Wormhole protocol, adding multi-chain testnet support (Fantom, Karura, Acala, Aurora, Klaytn, Neon) and resolving complex chain ID and governance payload handling issues. His background blends rigorous computer science training (MS, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) with practical expertise in deploying reliable distributed systems. Based in Naperville, IL, Bruce brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach and a knack for making cross-chain integrations robust and auditable.
4 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at University of Wisconsin-Green BayMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Github Skills (12)
golang10
go10
fantom10
blockchain10
ethereum9
solidity9
opt7
optim7
neon7
k7
aptos7
arb7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wormhole-foundation/wormhole
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
A reference implementation for the Wormhole blockchain interoperability protocol.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 releases, 1712 reviews, 285 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Bruce implemented features related to deploying the Wormhole protocol on the Fantom blockchain, including necessary Truffle changes. They added support for Karura, Acala, and Aurora testnets, and also implemented testnet support for Klaytn and Neon. Additionally, the user modified the code to include support for the correct handling of chain IDs for various blockchains and addressed issues with processing governance payloads.
blockchainsoliditygolangrust
wormholelabs-xyz/wormhole
May 2024 - Jul 2025
A reference implementation for the Wormhole blockchain interoperability protocol.
Contributions:8 reviews, 12 PRs, 613 pushes in 1 year 2 months
blockchain
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