Jacob Turner

Software Engineer / Mathematician

The Randstad, Netherlands

About

I am a trained applied mathematician now working as an algorithm engineer and software developer. I am currently working as Rust software engineer at Heliax working on the Namada blockchain and surrounding ecosystem Before that, I lead the algorithms chapter at start-up company from from pre - product launch to scale-up phase and taken ownership of two large existing codebases and overseen their maintenance and development throughout this period. Previously I worked as a researcher and afterward worked as a data scientist and later as an algorithm engineer. I have also contributed to open source projects and I am always excited about new technology and a chance to learn something new and expand my skill set. During my studies I focused on (among other things) * Symbolic computation * Complexity theory * Algorithm design * Quantum computing * Cryptography * Computational geometry Since working as software developer, I have acquired the following skills: * Algorithm analysis, maintainance, and development (performance analysis, optimization in both speed and memory, to thread safety, memory leaks) * Owner and maintainer of multiple large code bases (both pre-existing that I took on) * Worked in a polyglot environment (day to day work in Python, C++, and Rust) * Databases: SQL, Postgres * GIS, especially in regards to traffic map and public transportation data, * CI/CD tooling, including Travis and Jenkins * Docker and microservice architectures * Protobuf, Avro, Kafka, ZeroMQ * REST APIs * Data science and machine learning

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Ava Labs
    Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos

  • Software Engineer at Heliax
    Jul 2021 - Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 4 mos

    -Blockchain protocol engineer - Lead of interoperability team - Worked various cryptographic protocols, e.g. zcash style mixer, distributed key algorithms, fuzzy message detection

  • Lead Algorithm Engineer at Plotwise
    Nov 2017 - Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    - Lead of the algorithms department - Maintain and develop a high throughput/ high performance routing software service - Maintain and develop a delivery planning software service

  • Data Scientist at Skylads
    Oct 2017 - Dec 2017 · 3 mos

    - Work in R & D - Focus on progammatic for digital marketing - Develop machine learning algorithms for real time bidding. -Prototype and test new algorithms.

  • Postdoctoral Researcher at Universiteit van Amsterdam
    Jul 2015 - Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    -Coordinated with the research group of Alexander Schrijver in graph theory, network theory, and optimization. – Published research articles. – Presented research (10 talks in 5 countries). – Collaborated with research groups in physics and computer science in scientific applications. – Taught undergraduate courses.