Brady O. Werkheiser

Brady Werkheiser leads growth at Helius, a Solana developer platform. His focus is on organic growth, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). Brady is based in San Francisco, California, and outside of work he consults web3 startups on growth marketing.

Brady was born near Philadelphia, PA, and grew up around Doylestown. Brady graduated from Pennridge High School in 2009, and graduated cum laude from Saint Joseph's University in 2013 with a B.S. in Chemistry. After University, Brady worked for a number of small agencies where he focused on IT, web development, and digital marketing. Brady then taught himself SEO, and in 2017 he joined UNINCORPORATED (UN), a higher education branding agency based in Los Angeles, CA.

At UN, Brady supported multiple schools at USC with end-to-end marketing services including the USC Thornton School of Music, Executive Masters of Leadership, and Ostrow School of Dentistry. Brady also supported brands in health, travel, and PR including Providence Health, Snohomish County, WA, and Nyhus.

In March 2021, Brady joined Webstacks, a headless CMS development agency in San Diego, as their first SEO hire. At Webstacks, Brady was the SEO lead for web3 companies Circle and Blocknative, and he worked with engineers to optimize websites for performance, core web vitals, and inbound leads.

In November of 2021 Brady started contracting with Alchemy, a multichain development platform. After 6 months of SEO freelancing, Brady was hired as employee number 69, and joined the growth team. During his 2.5 years at Alchemy he published 300+ blogs, 5,000+ programmatic SEO pages, generated 100s of millions of organic impressions, and earned millions of clicks.

In October of 2024, Brady joined Helius, a Series B Solana startup. Since joining the team, he migrated Helius' website to a headless CMS, launched the Helius Startup Launchpad, organized the [REDACTED] Hackathon, owned multiple GTM campaigns, and published dozens of long-form articles on the Helius blog. 

Today, his main focus is optimizing Orb, Helius's Solana block explorer, and leading GTM activities for Helius products including the Helius for Agents stack, LaserStream, archival, and other products.

To contact Brady, send him a personalized DM on LinkedIn, Twitter, or @bradyowen on Telegram.