Jacquin Mininger
Senior Protocol Engineer at Jito Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacquin Mininger is a systems-focused software engineer with nine years’ experience building distributed ledgers, high-frequency trading infrastructure, and tooling in Rust and Haskell. He’s contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Kadena’s Pact smart contract language and the reflex-platform nix/Haskell build stack, and has a track record of smoothing CI/CD and cross-platform build pain points. As a co-founder accelerating ZK adoption and a staff engineer working on HFT/MEV and Solana validator tooling, he bridges low-level crypto research with production-grade deployment practices. Based in New York, he combines deep functional-programming expertise with practical DevOps skills—frequently untangling complex build and runtime impurities that others miss. He asks collaborators to prove they've read his profile, a small test that signals he values attention to detail and serious, thoughtful partnerships.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
https://www.recurse.com/, https://www.recurse.com/ at Recurse CenterSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at Fullstack Academy1 year, Robotics Engineering, Computer Science, 1 year, Robotics Engineering, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstitutePhysics / Mathematics, Physics / Mathematics at Stony Brook University
English
Github Skills (22)
obelisk10
back-end-development10
nix10
testing10
command-line-interface10
full-stack10
command-line10
backend10
devops10
haskell10
ssh10
cli10
frp9
functional-reactive-programming9
ghcjs9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kadena-io/pact
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
The Pact Smart Contract Language
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 6 commits, 10 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jacquin contributed significantly to the Pact smart contract language repository by implementing new native functions, including `str-to-list` and `concat`, and integrating unit tests. They also addressed CI/CD build process impurities by adding dependencies, configuring benchmark tasks, and streamlining the build process. Furthermore, the user added a script to ensure the correct `z3` path for running `pact` commands.
smart-contractspactblockchain
reflex-frp/reflex-platform
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
A curated package set and set of tools that let you build Haskell packages so they can run on a variety of platforms. reflex-platform is built on top of the nix package manager.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacquin primarily contributes to the build process and platform-specific configurations. They fixed build issues related to GHCJS and multi-package builds. Additionally, the user addressed Android-related crashes and worked on testing documentation. The commits indicate a focus on platform-specific adjustments and ensuring the project functions correctly across different environments.
haskellnixpackage-managerreflex-frpreactive
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