Yorke Rhodes
Founding Team at Hyperlane
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarYorke Rhodes is a founding-team software engineer with a decade of experience building blockchain infrastructure and user-facing applications from New York. He has led smart contract development and protocol engineering at organizations like Hyperlane, Gauntlet, and Celo, delivering gas-optimized Solidity contracts and decoupled core interfaces for cross-chain messaging. Equally comfortable in the front end, Yorke has shipped React-based macOS widgets and UX improvements, showing a knack for polishing product-facing details. He teaches and has taught blockchain courses, reflecting an ability to translate complex crypto concepts into practical curricula. An active open-source contributor, his work spans core contract implementation and interactive UI components, and he favors pragmatic optimizations such as migrating parameters to calldata for efficiency. Colleagues would describe him as a full-spectrum engineer who bridges low-level protocol design and delightful developer/user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
smart-contracts10
macos10
javascript10
solidity10
react10
blockchain10
ui-design9
monorepo9
interchain8
window-manager8
aerospace8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
hyperlane-xyz/hyperlane-monorepo
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
The home for Hyperlane core contracts, sdk packages, and other infrastructure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 1543 reviews, 327 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Yorke primarily contributed to the core contracts and interfaces of the Hyperlane monorepo, focusing on Solidity development. Their work involved migrating function parameters to `calldata` for gas optimization and decoupling core interfaces for application usage. They also modified multiple core contract files, including `Inbox.sol`, `Outbox.sol`, and `ValidatorManager.sol`, implementing changes to enhance functionality and maintainability of the smart contracts within the Hyperlane project.
interchainmonorepohyperlaneethereumblockchain
Jean-Tinland/simple-bar
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
A yabai, AeroSpace or FlashSpace status bar widget for Übersicht
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Yorke primarily contributed to the front-end development of a status bar widget for macOS. Their work included implementing new features, such as a crypto price widget, and adding interactive controls. They also focused on enhancing the user interface by introducing loading states and addressing issues related to React component keys, making the widget more user-friendly. The user demonstrated proficiency in React for building dynamic UI components.
statusbarwidgetubersichtubersicht-widgetlinux
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