Christopher Whinfrey
Co-Founder at Hop Protocol
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Whinfrey is a co-founder and software engineer with nine years of experience building decentralized applications and blockchain infrastructure from Los Angeles. As a founder at Hop Protocol (formerly Authereum Labs) since 2019, he combines product-minded engineering with startup execution, having prior founded Level K and worked as an independent consultant and freelance developer. His background spans mobile and desktop app delivery—shipping an iOS app at Oodle and a Windows Store medical app—and includes practical automation work in financial services early in his career. Trained in computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, he brings a hands-on, end-to-end approach to building distributed systems and developer tooling. Notably, he has transitioned from single-app releases to shaping cross-chain primitives, reflecting a trajectory from consumer apps to core blockchain infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science Engineering at University of Michigan College of Engineering
Github Skills (42)
uniswap10
javascript10
npm10
solidity10
ethereum-dapp10
evm10
openzeppelin10
typescript10
security10
cryptocurrency10
sdk10
ethereum10
blockchain10
layer210
hop-protocol10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
levelkdev/crypto-flash
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
send me some eth, how bout dat?
Contributions:33 commits, 8 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 day
ethereumethdat
authereum/is-valid-signature
Jun 2019 - Jul 2020
EIP1271 signature checker implementation in JavaScript
Contributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 1 month
javascriptethereumerc1271solidityweb3
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