jesper

Staff Software Engineer / Blockchain Developer / Quant Developer

I'm a blockchain founder, engineer, and researcher who builds production on-chain systems end-to-end.

I'm currently CEO & founder of Psi Finance , a multi-chain stablecoin payments platform ($12M+/yr) I designed and built single-handedly. I'm also co-founder of Direct.dev, next-generation RPC infrastructure (100Γ— faster, ~90% cheaper than traditional RPC). Before that I co-founded Panoptic: the perpetual-options protocol on Uniswap V3/V4, which raised $12M from Coinbase Ventures, Jane Street, and Uniswap Labs Ventures β€” and led a 12-person research team at Advanced Blockchain.

I hold a Cornell PhD in Computer Science and Physics, teach advanced Solidity at RareSkills, wrote the Apress reference text on Automated Market Makers, and run the @cryptojesperk crypto-education channel. I've taken audited smart contracts (OpenZeppelin, CertiK) all the way to mainnet, and I read protocols at the whitepaper level.

What I'm looking for: senior, staff, or founding roles in crypto - DeFi protocols, on-chain infrastructure, stablecoin payments, or technical product where I can own something end-to-end. Remote-first; I work fluidly across timezones.


Experience: 8 years

Yearly salary: $250,000

Hourly rate: $100

Nationality: πŸ‡©πŸ‡° Denmark

Residency: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ United States


Experience

Co-Founder & COO
Panoptic
2021 - 2023
Co-invented the perpetual-options protocol on Uniswap V3/V4 and co-authored the foundational whitepaper. Oversaw end-to-end security audits (OpenZeppelin, CertiK) through to mainnet. Raised $12M from Coinbase Ventures, Jane Street, and Uniswap Labs β–Ž Ventures. Ran ops, fundraising, hiring, and GTM. Speaker, ETHDenver 2023
Head of Research
Advanced Blockchain
2021 - 2022
Built a 12-person research team from scratch (ML, applied math, blockchain protocols, systems). Published 15 research articles in 10 months, including Best Paper Awards at ACM and IEEE. Several incubated projects spun out as companies that raised $100M+.

Skills

ai
blockchain
crypto
python
engineering-manager
english