Jesper Kristensen
Founder & CEO at Psi Finance
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJesper Kristensen is a founder, CEO, and investor with nine years of hands-on experience building frontier Web3 and fintech products, currently leading Psi Finance to deliver stablecoin-native rails for global payments. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics and Computer Science from Cornell and has moved between industrial R&D, quant finance, and full-stack engineering roles—applying rigorous research methods to product and protocol design. As founder of Panoptic he raised institutional backing from Coinbase Ventures, Jane Street and Uniswap Labs to pioneer permissionless DeFi perpetual options, and he’s authored widely-cited papers, patents, and two books on AMMs and derivatives math. Jesper combines deep technical rigor (Bayesian modeling, ML, optimization) with operator experience running funding rounds and day-to-day product delivery, and he’s an active educator—running a Solidity bootcamp and a popular crypto YouTube channel. An investor in breakthrough companies like SpaceX and Neuralink, he blends rare cross-domain insight that helps translate academic ideas into scalable financial infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Applied and Engineering Physics & Computer Science, Ph.D., Applied and Engineering Physics & Computer Science at Cornell UniversitySolidity and Blockchain Engineering Fellowship, Blockchain, Solidity and Blockchain Engineering Fellowship, Blockchain at RareSkills
Danish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (56)
solidity10
evm10
contract10
security10
ethereum10
smart-contracts10
ganache9
openzeppelin9
blockchain9
gas-optimization9
truffle8
python8
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
integrity8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jesperkristensen58/NFTStakingWithERC20
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
jesperkristensen58/ERC20TokenModified
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:47 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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