Jacob Saur
Senior Software Engineer (Financial Services) at Wave Mobile Money
Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Saur is a mission-driven senior software engineer with 10+ years designing and shipping full-stack systems that scale—most recently growing a West African fintech payments platform from 100k to over 5M monthly payers and 700k+ merchants. He pairs deep backend expertise (Python, Postgres, GraphQL, Kubernetes) with mobile and distributed-team leadership, and has lived on the ground to deploy technology—most notably leading Kiva’s decentralized identity pilot in Sierra Leone that issued millions of identity wallets. Comfortable advising blockchain and microfinance projects, he blends product-focused engineering with policy and partner engagement across governments, NGOs, and enterprises. A US citizen based in Annecy, France, he brings a global perspective from working remotely in 10+ countries and a track record of turning complex social-impact requirements into robust, production systems. Notably, he moves fluidly between hands-on coding and strategic architecture, having built everything from payment rails to identity microservices.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Engineering, BS, Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (34)
aries9
ssi9
decentralized-identity8
hyperledger-aries8
backend8
blockchain8
recovery8
peer-to-peer8
hyperledger-indy8
indy7
verifiable-credentials7
sdk7
guardian7
zkp7
microservices6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kiva/protocol-demo
Oct 2020 - Sep 2021
Primary open source entry point for the Kiva Protocol project. As an open source contributor you can use this repo to build your own fully self contained backend environment to replicate Kiva Protocol functionality.
Contributions:15 reviews, 28 commits, 54 PRs in 11 months
backendprotocolprotocol-backend
kiva/aries-controller
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:72 reviews, 53 commits, 109 PRs in 1 year 1 month
protocolprotocol-backend
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