Jack Tanner
CEO & Co-Founder at Tonomy Foundation
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJack Tanner is a CEO and co-founder with nine years of hands-on blockchain engineering and startup leadership, combining a Mechanical Engineering background with an Imperial College MSc in Computer Science. He designs and ships production-grade blockchain systems (EOSIO, Ethereum, Hyperledger) and upgradeable smart contract patterns, while leading product, architecture, DevOps and go-to-market at open-source ventures like Tonomy. Comfortable across the full stack (Node.js, React/Vue, C++, databases and CI/CD), he excels at translating complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and teaching developer bootcamps. A public-facing influencer in the EOSIO and Ethereum ecosystems, he has presented at 20+ conferences and contributed research into inter-blockchain communication and identity (SSI). Based in Amsterdam and pragmatic about engagement terms, he seeks impactful blockchain or innovative non-blockchain projects that combine technical challenge with tangible social benefit.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
1 Year International Student Exchange Program Mechanical Engineering, 1 Year International Student Exchange Program Mechanical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Engineering - BE Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Mechanical Engineering at The University of QueenslandMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Imperial College London
Spanish, English, Portuguese, Dutch
Github Skills (106)
verifiable10
recovery10
to-do10
eosio10
wallet10
verify10
ssi10
sdk10
eos10
credentials10
blockchain10
chain9
plutus9
api9
identity9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Tonomy-Foundation/Tonomy-Contracts
Aug 2022 - Apr 2025
Smart contracts to run the governance, identity, DAO, token and other ecosystem tools.
Contributions:86 reviews, 107 PRs, 221 pushes in 2 years 8 months
governanceethereumtokenblockchainsolidity
Tonomy-Foundation/accountability-framework
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
A distributed application in which all actions and objects can be linked to a human. This has a react app, nodejs server and eosio blockchain.
Contributions:260 commits, 46 PRs, 165 pushes in 6 months
reactjavascriptblockchaindistributed-applicationnodejs
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