Jacob Eberhardt
Group Lead Software Development at Bosch Digital
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolJacob Eberhardt is a Group Lead in Software Development based in Berlin with a decade of experience bridging research-grade cryptography and production engineering. He led the ZoKrates team at the Ethereum Foundation, contributing deep back-end integrations that connected Rust and C++ for zkSNARK tooling and produced Solidity-compatible proof formats—work that underpins verifiable computation on Ethereum. After a research career publishing widely in distributed systems and applied cryptography and earning a PhD, he moved into enterprise IT at Bosch, driving cloud-native migrations, infrastructure-as-code, and cross-divisional templates for large-scale SAP initiatives. Jacob combines hands-on systems integration with team leadership and a proven track record securing research funding and shipping open-source crypto tooling. He is notable for translating cutting-edge cryptographic research into practical developer tools used in real-world blockchain environments.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at University of KarlsruheDr.-Ing. / Ph.D., Dr.-Ing. / Ph.D. at Technische Universität Berlin
Github Skills (7)
zksnark10
c-language10
rust10
cprogramming-language10
ethereum10
cryptography9
blockchain9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Zokrates/ZoKrates
Mar 2017 - Nov 2020
A toolbox for zkSNARKs on Ethereum
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 254 commits, 152 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jacob's contributions focused on integrating the Rust-side of a libsnark library within the Zokrates project, a toolbox for zkSNARKs on Ethereum. This involved adapting the integration, transferring R1CS to C++, and exporting a verification key. They also implemented a solidity-compatible format for proof and input data, along with function call flattening for generating proofs. The work is centered around connecting Rust code with C++ code and creating tools around zkSNARKs.
snarkethereumverifiable-computationtoolboxzero-knowledge
JacobEberhardt/documents
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 5 months
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