Chris Latimer
Co-Founder & CEO at Vectorize
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolChris Latimer is a seasoned technology leader and founder with over 11 years of experience building cloud-native products and developer-facing systems, currently co-founding Vectorize and serving as CEO. He previously led product and cloud businesses at DataStax and shaped developer solutions at Google, blending product leadership with hands-on engineering. Chris contributes to prominent open-source blockchain projects (ERC721A, Seaport) and optimized Solidity libraries, reflecting deep expertise in smart contracts, gas optimization and low-level cryptography. His background as an enterprise architect and sales engineer means he pairs technical rigor with GTM experience—automating demos and driving million-dollar deals early in his career. Based in Denver, he’s focused on AI agents that remember and learn, shipping Hindsight as an industry-leading memory system. An electrical & computer engineering graduate from Ohio State, he quietly bridges systems engineering, product strategy and pragmatic open-source contributions.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (19)
solidity10
grails10
gas-optimization10
ethereum10
cryptography10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
data-structures8
data-structure8
algorithms8
algorithm8
gsp6
filter6
hibernate6
orm6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chiru-labs/ERC721A
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
https://ERC721A.org
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:146 reviews, 98 commits, 224 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on optimizing the core logic of an ERC721A smart contract, adding and refactoring the burning mechanism. They implemented various gas optimizations within the contract, including assembly level adjustments and data structure packing. Furthermore, the user improved token transfer mechanisms.
stakingerc721aethereumerc1155openzeppelin
Vectorized/solady
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Optimized Solidity snippets.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 184 reviews, 407 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the "solady" repository, which focuses on optimized Solidity snippets. Their commits primarily focused on implementing new Solidity libraries and functions, including `LibBitmap`, `LibString`, `SSTORE2`, `CREATE3`, and `ECDSA`. These contributions involved adding new utility functions and optimizing existing libraries.
ethereumsnippetssoliditysolcoptimized
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