Hayden Young
Programmer at OrbitDB
Spain
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Top SchoolHayden Young is a seasoned programmer with 15 years of experience focused on decentralized systems, blockchain, and cryptocurrency ecosystems while based in Spain. He currently contributes to OrbitDB and works as a smart contract developer at Valeo Labs, applying peer-to-peer and serverless database patterns to real-world products. As Co‑Founder and CTO of KnowledgeArc, he architected immutable, long-term knowledge repositories integrating IPFS, Storj and tokenized incentives—demonstrating a blend of product vision and low-level distributed engineering. His background includes multiple technical director and CTO roles where he led decentralization, procurement automation, and archival integrity initiatives. Comfortable across protocol design, smart contracts and distributed storage, he pairs mathematical training with practical system-building. A less obvious strength is his sustained focus on permanence and provenance—designing systems that treat data longevity and trust as first-class technical requirements.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at The University of Western AustraliaCurtin University
Spanish, French, English
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Github Skills (175)
tooling10
joomla-extensions10
cms10
peer-to-peer10
databases10
ipfs10
ganache10
console-log10
p2p10
client-library10
solidity10
solr10
vdm10
joomla-component10
orbit10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
knowledgearcdotorg/jsolr
Jun 2012 - May 2014
IMPORTANT NOTE: This repo is no longer maintained and will soon be deleted. Our new repository is located at https://gitlab.com/knowledgearcdotorg/jsolr.
Contributions:7 releases, 295 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 11 months
gitlabzmodemdeletedimportant
knowledgearcdotorg/jharvest
Oct 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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