Summary
Rory Hellyer is a pragmatic blockchain engineer with 20+ years of software experience and a decade focused on distributed systems and crypto-native products. He’s built production-grade smart contracts and protocols for startups and indie studios, including a social account-abstraction wallet deployed to over 400k wallets and a fully onchain autobattler game with 50,000+ fights. Rory combines protocol architecture, Ops, and product strategy—shipping open-source GPL-3 tooling and contributing practical fixes to the Safe ecosystem—to ensure systems are secure, auditable, and scalable. His work spans complex token economics, ERC-4337 account abstraction, automated multisig payments, and real-time onchain game mechanics. Based in Washington, D.C., he has repeatedly delivered zero-security-incident deployments and a knack for turning research ideas (like deterministic cross-chain addresses) into high-volume production services.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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