Jelle Millenaar
Co-Founder & CEO at Impierce Technologies
Houten, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJelle Millenaar is a founder and engineer focused on making Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) practical and privacy-preserving, with eight years of experience building identity infrastructure on green, feeless distributed ledgers. As Co-Founder & CEO of Impierce Technologies he’s turning the open-source IOTA Identity framework he helped launch at the IOTA Foundation into SaaS products that simplify onboarding for organizations and individuals. He combines hands-on protocol and software design with product and team leadership, having led identity positioning, developer education, and project delivery across the IOTA ecosystem. His background ranges from blockchain consulting and game backend development to teaching STEM, giving him a rare blend of technical breadth and communication skill. Based in the Netherlands, he’s driven by a mission to normalize privacy and create instantly verifiable, fraud-resistant digital identities.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Biology General, Bachelor of Science Biology General at Radboud UniversityVWO Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program, VWO Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Kaj Munk CollegePropedeuse Programming course Game Programming, Propedeuse Programming course Game Programming at International Game Architecture and Design - NHTV
English, German, Dutch
Github Skills (29)
decentralized-identity10
voting10
foundation10
verifiable-credentials10
blockchain10
w3c10
iota9
spec9
substrate9
tauri9
decentralization9
ethereum9
polkadot9
reference-implementation7
tmx5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JelleMillenaar/mam.ts
Oct 2018 - May 2019
Work in progress of a Typescript version of MAM
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
typescript
iotaledger-archive/identity.ts
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:64 commits, 8 PRs, 20 pushes in 8 months
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