Patrick O'Grady

Patrick O'Grady is the founder of Commonware, a startup building an open library of composable blockchain primitives in Rust, backed by Haun Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, and a $25 million strategic investment from Tempo. Before founding Commonware in 2024, he spent over three years at Ava Labs, rising to VP of Engineering and later VP of Platform Engineering, where he worked on Avalanche consensus research and initiatives like HyperSDK. Earlier, at Coinbase, he led development of Rosetta, the open-source specification (now known as the Coinbase Mesh API) used to integrate new blockchains. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

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