Jakob Lind
Senior Software Engineer at Aera Payment & Identification
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolJakob Lind is a senior software engineer based in Oslo with over a decade of experience building secure, high-availability systems for banking, telecom, and identity platforms. He combines deep back-end expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the Monero project enhancing wallet functionality and cryptography-adjacent tooling—with fullstack delivery across Scala/Play, frontend, and devops roles. Jakob has operated as both an independent consultant and in-house senior engineer at organizations like DNB and Telia Norge, often working on authentication, PKI and payment systems where reliability and security are paramount. His background in distributed systems (MSc, Chalmers) informs pragmatic designs that balance operational robustness with maintainability. Notably, his open-source work on Monero shows an applied interest in privacy-preserving protocols beyond his enterprise projects. He brings a steady track record of shipping production-grade features and mentoring cross-functional teams.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Networks and distributed systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Networks and distributed systems at Chalmers University of Technology
English, Swedish, Norwegian
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Github Skills (24)
crypto-wallet10
wallet10
c-language10
bitcoin-wallet10
cryptocurrency10
monero10
cryptography10
blockchain10
cprogramming-language10
ethereum-wallet10
cmake9
rpc9
react9
crypto8
crypt8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
monero-project/monero
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Monero: the secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Jakob primarily focused on enhancing the Monero wallet functionality. Their contributions included adding an optional height parameter to the `refresh` command in the `simplewallet`, improving the `pull_blocks` functionality, and refactoring code related to block retrieval. They also introduced a `seed` command to display the deterministic seed and added a `viewkey` command, both for the CLI and RPC interface, alongside the `query_key` command.
securecryptographycmakeuntraceableprivacy
jakoblind/js-import
Oct 2016 - Jan 2021
Emacs package to automatically import JavaScript files from the current project or dependencies.
Contributions:1 review, 27 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 3 months
dependenciesjavascriptemacs-packageemacsemacs-lsp
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