Dieter Shirley
Chief System Architect at Flow Foundation
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDieter Shirley is a seasoned systems architect and blockchain pioneer with 13+ years leading large engineering teams and a career that stretches back to early desktop and UI work. As co-creator of CryptoKitties and former CTO/lead architect at Dapper Labs, he helped catalyze mainstream consumer blockchain experiences and now serves as Chief System Architect for the Flow Foundation guiding Flow’s technical design. He combines deep systems and product instincts—shaped at companies from Apple to startup studios—with a focus on developer-friendly, high-throughput blockchain infrastructure. Known for translating consumer-grade UX into robust decentralized systems, he’s driven efforts to tear down adoption barriers so digital ownership can scale to billions. Trained in computer science at the University of Waterloo, he brings a rare blend of pragmatic engineering, cryptoeconomic thinking, and entertainment-focused product design.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BMath Computer Science, BMath Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (43)
solidity10
cadence10
contract10
ethereum10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
programming-language9
nft9
cosmwasm9
blockchain-network9
digital-assets9
move9
firefox8
plug8
linear-types8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dete/config
Mar 2013 - Jun 2022
Contributions:34 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
dete/dete.github.io
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:9 pushes in 7 months
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