Jason Rhinelander
Chief Software Architect at Oxen
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Summary
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RockstarJason Rhinelander is Chief Software Architect at Oxen with 13 years of experience designing and hardening privacy-focused, distributed systems from Fredericton, Canada. He combines hands‑on backend and cryptography work on the Oxen cryptocurrency core with systems-level networking contributions to Lokinet, an anonymous IP overlay, showing strength across both protocol design and secure implementation. A long‑time open-source maintainer and contributor, he has improved critical C++/Python interop in pybind11, tackled memory and type-safety issues, and streamlined build and configuration practices across projects. Jason is known for simplifying complex code paths to boost performance and security, and for pragmatic debugging that turns subtle blockchain and networking edge cases into production-ready behavior.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (30)
library-design10
c-language10
lib10
python10
configuration-management10
code-library10
html-template10
python-templates10
numpy10
cryptocurrency10
code-templates10
stl10
apptemplates10
st10
eigen10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
oxen-io/lokinet
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Lokinet is an anonymous, decentralized and IP based overlay network for the internet.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 383 reviews, 1102 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jason focused on improving the configuration and functionality of the Lokinet project. They addressed issues with option names in configuration files, ensuring proper display and usability. Furthermore, the user made changes to configuration settings related to service nodes, and the removal of obsolete bootstrap files. They also contributed to build configuration by updating project dependencies.
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oxen-io/oxen-core
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Oxen core repository, containing oxend and oxen cli wallets
Role in this project:Back-end & Cryptography Developer
Back-end & Cryptography DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 425 reviews, 2442 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jason contributed to the core functionality of the Oxen cryptocurrency, making modifications to the base protocol implementation and blockchain processing. They focused on improving and refining the system, debugging and patching various issues within the codebase, including the payment of the service nodes, as well as improving the security. These changes included code optimization and performance improvements by simplifying code paths.
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