Hayden Porter-aylor
Founder at Zera Labs
San Marcos, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolHayden Porter-aylor is a cryptography-focused founder and engineer with eight years of experience building privacy-preserving payment infrastructure and large-scale consumer software. As founder and CEO of Zera Labs he leads product strategy and protocol design for a Solana-native zero-knowledge privacy layer enabling shielded balances, private transfers, and offline peer-to-peer exchange for assets like USDC, USDT, and SOL. His work converges applied zk-SNARK research—commitments and nullifiers—into production-grade, non‑custodial systems prioritizing performance, composability, and real-world interoperability across blockchains and traditional rails. Before Zera he contributed to secure wallet and financial software at MetaMask and USAA and shipped engineering work across open-source and enterprise teams at Consensys, PMG, and Apex Systems. An ex‑Navy electronics technician turned founder, he pairs operational rigor with a PhD-by-publication origin for Zera’s research, and is quietly incubating a privacy-first healthcare data layer that applies the same cryptographic guarantees to sensitive medical information.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
n&w Computer Software Engineering, n&w Computer Software Engineering at buildspaceCyber/Electronic Operations and Warfare, Cyber/Electronic Operations and Warfare at Columbia Basin College
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Dax911/hottest
Mar 2022 - May 2022
take home project for MetaMask interview. Based on iTheo's roundest program it reads and compares NFTs.
Contributions:133 commits, 8 PRs, 117 pushes in 1 month
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Dax911/ignite
Dec 2022 - Mar 2024
Infinite Red's battle-tested React Native project boilerplate, along with a CLI, component/model generators, and more!
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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