Jacob Ward
Software Developer (Rust) at Squarepoint
Greater Brighton and Hove Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Ward is a Senior Lead Software Engineer based in the Greater Brighton and Hove area with four years of professional experience building production-grade systems across startups and finance. He progressed rapidly from Data Infrastructure Engineer to Principal Engineer at SpruceID and spent time working with Rust at Squarepoint before moving into a leadership role at Renewabl. Jacob focuses on backend and infrastructure work, shipping secure, reliable services and mentoring teams through architectural transitions. His trajectory shows a knack for moving between applied cryptographic/identity work and low-latency finance systems, suggesting strong adaptability and systems-thinking. A University of Sussex computer science graduate, he pairs practical engineering with a curiosity for high-assurance implementations.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Sussex
Github Skills (70)
identity10
peer-to-peer10
ssi10
decentralization10
libp2p10
openid10
networking10
core-library9
solidity9
rust9
orbits9
verifiable-credentials9
smart-contracts9
der9
overlays9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
spruceid/oid4vci-rs
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:18 reviews, 13 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years 3 months
openid
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