Patrick Heinz
Blockchain Pioneer | Founder | CTO | Scaled Filecoin to $15B | Driving YouBallin’s Technical Vision
Greater Seattle Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder | Chief Technology Officer
2025 - Current
Advisor
2017
Guidepoint is a leading expert network which connects business decision-makers and researchers with independent subject matter experts
Blockchain Solutions Architect
2011
Filecoin Technical Lead
2019 - 2021
Formulated a strategic roadmap for Filecoin’s mainnet launch, achieving a $15.2B market cap and scaling storage to ~1 EiB (including 325 PiB of seeded data) as a leading DePIN solution. Led a 12-person team using Agile/Scrum, fostering cross-departmental collaboration with product and community teams to drive global adoption (2,000+ participants at Filecoin Liftoff). Evaluated and introduced cutting-edge technologies (IPFS, P2P pipelines), ensuring technical feasibility and security for decentralized applications.
Protocol Labs is a research, development, and deployment lab for network protocols.
Raised $10,920,000.00 from Holon Global Investments, Kosmos Ventures, MRTNZ Ventures, BlueYard Capital, Boost VC and FundersClub.
Founder | Chief Technology Officer
2019 - 2020
Senior Architect
2018 - 2018
Senior Core Dev
2018 - 2018
Co-Founder | Head of Blockchain Architecture
2017 - 2018
Technical Specialist
2012 - 2013
Technical Training Specialist
2009 - 2012
Education
Associates
2002 - 2005