Umar Dhudra is a blockchain technologist and entrepreneur who has spent over eight years at the frontier of Web3 — designing and shipping decentralized finance protocols, exchanges, cross-chain bridges, and oracle networks that are live in production and relied upon by third parties.

He founded Relymer Labs in 2017 and grew it into a Web3-native product-and-engineering studio delivering multi-million-dollar infrastructure for clients across the U.S., the Gulf, Europe, and Asia. His work spans a decentralized exchange that has processed over $2.1 billion in trading volume, the first Shariah-compliant DeFi protocol on the BNB Chain, and blockchain trade-finance frameworks adopted by a national government platform.

In 2025 he introduced Blockchain Talent as a Service (BTaaS) — a response to what AI coding tools did to the early stage of company building. With founders now generating their own MVPs, the scarce resource stopped being code and became the specialist judgment required to get that code onto a chain safely. BTaaS unbundles that expertise into hours rather than contracts, opening senior blockchain engineering to founders who could never have afforded a retained team.

Beyond building, Umar is a convener of the region's Web3 ecosystem, a sought-after judge and mentor at international hackathons and pitch competitions, and a speaker who has appeared at more than 400 events worldwide.

He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Bahria University, Islamabad (2012–2016), and is an alumnus of Draper University's selective Hero Training program, where he was named a “Change Agent.”