Jacob Haap
Chief Technology Officer at Determination Labs
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolJacob Haap is a software architect and CTO based in Berlin with eight years of experience building distributed systems, backend applications, and libraries focused on cryptography and blockchain. He leads technology strategy at Determination Labs after founding and scaling Anomaly Science, blending hands-on engineering with executive product judgement. Jacob’s work centers on Web2–Web3 interoperability and human-first design, and he frequently presents across Europe to challenge conventional uses of Web3 and advocate alternative, practical applications. An active open-source developer, he combines experimental cryptography research with production-ready implementations and is pursuing postgraduate study in computer science to deepen his technical foundations. Notably, he pairs entrepreneurial training from Draper University with a pragmatic, research-driven approach that surfaces uncommon trade-offs between usability and cryptographic rigor.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MSc, Computer Science, Master of Science - MSc, Computer Science at University of LiverpoolCertificate, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Certificate, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Draper University
English, German
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
react8
nextjs7
rust7
typescript6
minecraft6
environmental6
deno6
nodejs4
mongodb4
python3
flask3
discord3
css3
linux2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jacobhaap/site
Jan 2023 - Nov 2025
Contributions:53 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 10 months
jacobhaap/Personal-Website
May 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:8 PRs, 55 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
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