Gert-jaap Glasbergen
Co-Founder at Blocksource
Voorburg, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolGert-jaap Glasbergen is a Co-Founder and software engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a decade-plus career in product and architecture roles, now focused since 2018 on digital currencies and blockchain systems. He combines hands-on backend development—contributing to MIT DCI projects like the LIT Lightning Network node and discreet log contracts—with strategic CBDC and financial infrastructure advising through his company Wadagso. Comfortable moving between greenfield product architecture, mining-operations tooling, and cryptographic prototypes, he brings both central-bank domain insight and practical engineering delivery. A self-employed blockchain specialist and frequent freelance collaborator, he has a track record of shipping privacy-preserving and interoperability-focused proofs-of-concept for high-profile research groups. Based in Voorburg, Netherlands, he pairs formal IT education with leadership experience dating back to early software development and works council roles. Notably, his contributions to LIT include network resilience features and secure remote-control capabilities—practical improvements that bridge research and production readiness.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
HAVO, HAVO at Andreas CollegeBachelor, Information Technology, Bachelor, Information Technology at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied SciencesAdvanced Distributed Systems DesignMatrix Management, Matrix Management at Krauthammer
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Github Skills (11)
go10
lightning-network10
blockchain10
rpc9
net8
network8
p2p8
boltdb7
azure6
sql6
android6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mit-dci/lit
Nov 2017 - Oct 2018
Lightning Network node software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 48 PRs, 1 branch in 10 months
Contributions summary:Gert-jaap primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Lightning Network node software, focusing on network operations and communication. Their work included implementing features related to discreet log contracts (DLCs), automatic reconnection, and message handling. The user also made changes to the remote control functionality, enabling secure access and remote procedure calls within the node. Furthermore, they addressed specific issues regarding litecoin regtest and enhanced various logging aspects.
lightningblockchaincryptocurrencylightning-networkbitcoin
mit-dci/go-bverify
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:143 commits in 4 months
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