Jacob Trombetta
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Trombetta is a senior software engineer with 14+ years of experience specializing in zero-knowledge proofs, GPU acceleration, computer vision, and high-performance C++/Rust systems. He has repeatedly translated research into production, delivering multimodal performance wins—most notably 5x speedups in ZK proof pipelines and a 3.6x CUDA acceleration of Microsoft NOVA's HyperKZG commitment. Jacob has led and scaled remote perception teams for robotics and industrial inspection products, shipping GPU-accelerated vision and real-time pipelines that process millions of rows per second. Comfortable bridging cryptography, numerical math, and systems engineering, he contributes to open-source ZK tooling and collaborates directly with researchers to push practical performance limits. Based in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, he is actively open to remote roles where his uncommon blend of applied math, CUDA optimization, and production engineering can accelerate cryptographic and vision systems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Applied Mathematics, Master of Science (MS) Applied Mathematics at The University of AkronNanodegree Artificial Intelligence, Nanodegree Artificial Intelligence at Udacity
Github Skills (19)
elliptic-curve-cryptography10
sql10
rust10
cpp10
recursive10
laravel9
sat-solver9
homotopy-type-theory9
zkp8
cryptography8
crate6
toolchain6
llvm4
compiler4
react3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spaceandtimefdn/blitzar-rs
Oct 2023 - Jul 2025
High-Level Rust wrapper for the blitzar-sys crate
Contributions:39 reviews, 94 PRs, 173 pushes in 1 year 10 months
craterustelliptic-curve-cryptographyzk-proofs
jacobtrombetta/Nova
Jan 2025 - Jul 2025
Nova: High-speed recursive arguments from folding schemes
Contributions:130 pushes, 24 branches in 6 months
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