Jacob Lindahl
Chief Technology Officer at Self-employed
Kawasaki, Japan
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Top SchoolJacob Lindahl is a cybersecurity-minded technology leader and CTO with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently working at a stealth startup and active as a self-employed web developer and smart contract auditor. He blends deep blockchain and Rust expertise with a background in medical software, data privacy, and cryptographic licensing systems. Previously he led native USDC efforts on NEAR, authored privacy and paymaster smart contracts, and created developer tools and educational programs for the Web3 ecosystem. A prolific educator, he has published over 100 programming and computer science tutorial videos on YouTube and designed a 6-week smart contract teacher training track supported by the Ethereum Foundation. Based in Kawasaki, Japan, he pairs hands-on implementation (C#, Rust, smart contracts) with technical mentorship across more than 170 short-term engagements. Hacker at heart, he frequently bridges research, tooling, and practical security improvements in distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Web and Software Development, Web and Software Development at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical CollegeMaster's degree, Mathematical and Computing Science, Master's degree, Mathematical and Computing Science at Tokyo Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Minnesota Twin CitiesComputer Science, Computer Science at Nagoya University
Spanish, Japanese
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Github Skills (95)
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cryptocurrency10
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rust10
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ethereum10
blockchain10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
NEAR-Edu/contract-registry
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:43 commits, 6 pushes in 1 month
NEARFoundation/stats.gallery
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Big & fun NEAR account analytics!
Contributions:11 reviews, 317 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 4 months
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