Hi, I'm Jacob ๐Ÿ‘‹
Ten years building data-intensive applications โ€” AI data pipelines, on-chain analytics, and financial-data tooling.
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I build data-intensive applications โ€” systems that take messy data and make it legible โ€” including AI: agentic harnesses where the model reasons and a deterministic engine computes.

The same rigor runs through my data work. I've traded crypto since 2020, and when I had to do my taxes, I realised nothing could reconcile my transactions across 20+ wallets and multiple chains โ€” so I built my own tools. One is a trade planning, execution, and analysis engine: a deterministic double-entry ledger that books crypto and fiat together, derived from rules and raw events and regenerated rather than hand-edited, so every number carries its receipts โ€” FIFO cost basis, per-wallet provenance, audit-grade by construction.

When FTX collapsed in 2022, I realised I was holding a rug recovery tool: the proof lived off-chain โ€” funds frozen on an exchange that never touched a wallet โ€” but the same ledger could book that loss, structured and sourced. That set me experimenting with early local LLMs and ML: a multi-modal pipeline (voice transcription, vision, and OCR over screen recordings, PDFs, and statements, all on local models) that turns that unstructured evidence into structured, sourced entries.

When AI matured with Claude 3 in 2024, I put the model in the loop โ€” reasoning over messy, unstructured evidence, reconciling it across sources, and classifying it into the ledger's schema, while the deterministic engine keeps the books. The same engine reconstructs any position from raw on-chain events for analytics and due diligence, every figure traceable to source.

Around it sit Solana DeFi P&L analytics, on-chain event tooling, and Xero financial reporting. Iโ€™m a hardware and software power user, and I share what I learn about AI and tooling for staying productive solo.

Open to software-engineering roles in AI and crypto โ€” remote, or based in Tel Aviv.

Work

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Self-employed

2026 - Present
Software Engineer & Founder
Building **AccountMD** โ€” a deterministic double-entry engine for crypto + fiat, operated through an AI harness (Claude Code + domain skills): the model reasons, the engine computes, every number carries its receipts. FIFO cost basis, multi-chain event parsing, per-wallet audit trails, and on-chain forensics โ€” reconstructing wallet flows and running token/project due diligence (rugs, exploits) on Solana. Alongside, freelance fiat-valuation work for a finance client (MYOB + Xero).
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Self-employed

2020 - 2026
Software Engineer
Self-directed trading infrastructure on Solana โ€” built P&L analytics and trade-ledger reconstruction tooling for delta-neutral day-trading and DLMM market making (Meteora), across ~1000s of transactions (see the project demos below).
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STRV

2017 - 2018
Sales Engineer
Pre-sales engineering at a US software-development agency (New York) โ€” scoping custom software builds and translating client requirements into project specs.
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Atlassian

2014 - 2015
Software Engineer Intern
Software engineering internship in the Jira/Confluence ecosystem, during my UNSW engineering degree.

Education

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University of New South Wales

2012 - 2016
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Electrical)
Electrical engineering โ€” signals, control systems, and embedded design. Where the systems thinking started.

Tech Stack

TypeScript
Python
Rust
SQL
React
Remix / React Router
Next.js
Tailwind
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Prisma
Drizzle
SQLite / FTS5
BigQuery
MLX
Local LLMs (Llama)
Agentic AI / LLM tools
Whisper
Qwen3-VL
OCR / multi-modal
Solana
Anchor
Meteora DLMM
Helius
On-chain forensics
Xero API
Stripe
FIFO accounting
Docker
GCP
AWS
Fly.io
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Building in Public

I write about building crypto and financial-data tools โ€” and what I learn using AI to ship more on my own.

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