Jesse Cohen
Enterprise Architect at Capgemini Invent
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Cohen is an Enterprise Architect in New York with eight years of experience bridging consulting, finance, and systems engineering to drive procurement transformations and tangible asset valuation for large organizations. He blends hands-on backend engineering—contributing concurrency fixes, thread-safety annotations, and unit tests to high-profile open-source Bitcoin and cryptocurrency codebases—with strategic delivery skills honed at Capgemini Invent, The Hackett Group, and Deloitte. His background in civil engineering and an MBA gives him a rare mix of technical rigor, quantitative valuation expertise, and program-level change management. Jesse has repeatedly improved reliability in distributed, security-sensitive systems by preventing race conditions and clarifying threading and memory models. He’s comfortable moving between client-facing strategy, financial compliance work, and low-level code debugging, making him effective at turning complex technical and regulatory requirements into auditable solutions. Based in NYC, he brings a consultative mindset and practitioner’s discipline to enterprise architecture engagements.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of BusinessBachelor of Science (B.S.), Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Civil Engineering at University of ConnecticutUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (26)
unit-testing10
c-language10
back-end-development10
multithreading10
peer-to-peer10
testing10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
cryptocurrency10
thread10
hyper-threading10
blockchain10
litecoin10
threaded10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bitcoin/bitcoin
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 14 PRs, 105 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to the core logic and internal workings of the Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree. Their commits involved fixing concurrency-related bugs in `ActivateBestChain`, ensuring proper ordering of callbacks in the chain update process, and addressing issues related to block processing signals. They also added unit tests to validate the ordering of signals generated by `ProcessNewBlock` and implemented a unit test for the `SingleThreadedSchedulerClient`.
cryptographyp2pc-plus-pluscryptocurrencybitcoin-core
PIVX-Project/PIVX
Apr 2018 - Apr 2021
Protected Instant Verified Transactions - Core wallet.
Role in this project:Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:10 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily focuses on improving the stability and reliability of the PIVX core wallet. Their contributions include adding unit tests to ensure the proper ordering of callbacks within the `SingleThreadedSchedulerClient`, which is crucial for the wallet's operational integrity. They also addressed concurrency issues in `ActivateBestChain` by implementing a ChainState lock to prevent race conditions, and updated documentation to clarify the threading and memory model used by the validation interface and scheduler client. These changes are focused on enhancing the robustness of the core wallet logic.
protectedmasternodesproof-of-stakewalletpos
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