Samuel Dare is a Core Contributor and serial founder with eight years of experience building decentralized infrastructure, large language model tooling, and scalable systems from Dubai. As CEO of Genysys.io and Fooddepaux and a recent engineering manager at Opentensor Foundation, he blends hands-on technical leadership with product strategy to push blockchain and LLM integrations into production. His background spans technical architecture roles at Brave and Shell and senior platform work at Realio, giving him deep experience in security-conscious, high-throughput systems. Samuel co-founded Khalani Labs to explore intent-centric declarative settlements, reflecting a penchant for protocol-level innovation rather than just application layers. He holds executive education in Blockchain Strategy from Oxford Saïd and a B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering, an uncommon path that informs his systems-thinking approach. Known for collaborating across like-minded teams, he focuses on transparent, efficient, and secure decentralized ecosystems while staying fluent in both research and engineering execution.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The Park School
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Chemical Engineering at The University of Manchester
Blockchain Strategy Programme, Blockchain Strategy Programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Contributions:4 reviews, 21 PRs, 39 pushes in 6 months
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