Jakub Kornafel
Product & Delivery Manager at Sofia Team
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolJakub Kornafel is a Product & Delivery Manager based in Warsaw with 12 years of experience building and scaling blockchain, Web3 and AI-driven products. He has led delivery and product strategy at IOHK (Cardano sidechains, EVM integrations and cross-chain bridges) and currently shapes blockchain product strategy and go-to-market at Sofia Team. Equally at home in hands-on technical environments and executive reporting, he has implemented Agile transformations (SAFe/Scrum), defined roadmaps, and managed cross-functional teams and budgets. His background includes leading blockchain R&D, technical program management, and even front-end coding, giving him the rare ability to translate deep technical details into commercial outcomes. Jakub also contributes to open-source compiler work—implementing optimizations and core language features for the Plutus smart-contract language—which underscores his interest in low-level blockchain tooling. He combines product vision, technical fluency, and a track record of fostering partnerships and monetization strategies across the blockchain ecosystem.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dele Superior Spanish, Dele Superior Spanish at Instituto Cervantes VarsoviaProcess and Strategic Management, Process and Strategic Management at Warsaw University of TechnologyComputer Science, Computer Science at Udemy AlumniMaster of Arts - MA, Master of Arts - MA at The Grazyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lodz
Spanish, English, Polish
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Github Skills (8)
compiler-optimization10
programming-language10
haskell10
blockchain10
smart-contracts9
nix7
azure6
azure-active-directory6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
IntersectMBO/plutus
Apr 2021 - Sep 2021
The Plutus language implementation and tools
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 12 commits, 11 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jakub primarily worked on the Plutus language implementation and tools. Their contributions involved significant code changes related to inlining, beta-reduction transformations, and the addition of new modules and API updates to PlutusIR, including the PlutusIR core. They also made modifications to the build process using Nix and updated existing test and golden files. The commits suggest a focus on compiler optimization and the development of core language features.
programming-languageblockchainsmart-contractsplutus
jakzale/blame
Mar 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:409 commits in 6 months
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