Ben Heidorn

Ben Heidorn is the CTO and founder of Blockade Games, a blockchain gaming company that is building free-to-play, easy to navigate games that allow players to keep the value of their time and money investment. Prior to Blockade Games, Ben was an open source developer for 10K Pizza, where they created a cryptocurrency portfolio application that could be run either standalone or with a server backend for extra functionality. Ben has also worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at Penn State University, where they were a graduate student in Computer Science and a Research Assistant in Computer Security.

Ben Heidorn received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2008-2009. Ben then attended Penn State University from 2009-2012, completing a Doctoral Track in Computer Science. Ben was also the President of the Eberly College of Science Student Council and a Physics Researcher/Programmer.

Ben Heidorn is the CTO and founder of a small team. Theircolleagues include Diego Martinez (Technical Artist), Dustin Rasmussen (Technical Project Manager), Andrea McGinty (COO), Kyle Chivers (Art Director), Hardy Fowler (Digital Painter), Chris Chapman (Executive Producer), Adrian Seeley (Development & Project Manager), Dave Smith (Lead Game Designer), Kyle Garner (Principal Technical Designer), Diego Rodriguez (Lead Artist & Founder), Brian Hacker (Senior Game Designer), and Richie Bonilla (Product Manager & UX Designer). The following people report to Ben Heidorn: Adam Gibbons (Software Engineer), Troy Salem (Software Engineer), Rob Myers (Lead Blockchain Engineer), and Scott Sollows (Unity Developer).