Jake Lang
Cofounder, CTO at Wander
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Lang is a founder and engineering leader with nine years of hands-on experience building infrastructure and developer tooling for blockchain and distributed systems. As Cofounder and CTO at Tenbin Labs and former Cofounder of Spearbit Labs and Cantina, he combines product-focused leadership with deep low-level engineering experience from roles at Ethereum and ETC Labs. He contributed significant Rust bindings and host-interface work to the notable ethereum/evmc project, adding procedural macros and improving test coverage to enable VMs to interoperate more smoothly. Comfortable moving between core protocol work and startup execution, he’s advised early-stage teams such as Wander while continuing to ship production systems. Known for a pragmatic “build things” mindset, Jake pairs systems-level intuition with practical delivery and a track record of turning research-grade crypto work into usable developer tooling.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Brooklyn Technical High School
Github Skills (11)
binding10
rust10
ethereum10
testing9
rust-macros9
proc-macro9
c178
c118
rust-wasm7
wasm-pack7
cpp5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum/evmc
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
EVMC – Ethereum Client-VM Connector API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 146 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to the Rust bindings for the EVMC project. They implemented core functionality, including helpers for execution result handling and the ExecutionContext (host interface), which exposes EVMC host functions. Furthermore, the user added a procedural macro for automatic VM declaration. Their work focused on building the Rust interfaces that allow other VMs to interact with EVMC. They also focused on fixing and improving the test suite.
golangapicppethereumrust
jakelang/libeci
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:59 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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