Gert-Jaap Glasbergen

Dad, Husband, Coder

38 Years of Innovation in Software Engineering

Digital Currency TechnologyHigh-Performance SystemsGenerative AI

From MSX-BASIC at age 5 to building the most advanced high-performance systems today. Focused on building tomorrow's infrastructure.

Three Areas of Expertise

Focused on building the infrastructure for tomorrow's digital economy

Digital Currency Technology

Architecting the future of programmable money and central bank digital currencies.

High-Performance Systems

Engineering systems that push the boundaries of transaction throughput and latency.

Generative AI

Leveraging AI for rapid prototyping and building advanced knowledge systems that make complex information accessible.

Recent Highlights

Key projects and contributions from the past few years

Industry²

Professional

Building a locally hosted, open-source artificial intelligence system that learns from experience.

2026-PresentArtificial IntelligenceOpen SourceLocal-FirstLearning Systems

Radius Network

Professional

Building payment systems that can handle millions of transactions per second for the agentic economy.

2024-PresentRustHigh-PerformanceDistributed SystemsAI Economy

CBDC Research

Professional

Architected smart contract systems for wholesale financial operations and central bank digital currencies.

2022-2023GoRustDigital CurrencySmart Contracts

OpenCBDC PArSEC

Professional

Co-developed the PArSEC architecture that brought smart-contract programmability and EVM support to OpenCBDC; wrote its Geth-compatible JSON-RPC layer. Acknowledged in the PArSEC paper.

2022C++EVMCBDCSmart Contracts

Verthash Algorithm

Personal/Hobby

Co-developed memory-intensive mining algorithm maintaining ASIC resistance for Vertcoin network.

2021C++CryptographyDistributed LedgerOpen Source

OpenCBDC

Professional

Co-author of the OpenCBDC transaction processor and primary author of its Test Controller, the AWS benchmarking system that produced the Hamilton whitepaper's evaluation results.

2020-2021C++GoCBDCHigh-Performance

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Career Journey

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2026-Present

Industry²

Founder

Building a locally hosted, open-source AI system that learns from experience

2024-Present

Radius Technology Systems (Contractor)

Distributed Systems Engineer

Building payment systems for the agentic economy at millions of TPS

2020-Present

Wadagso

Founder & Principal Consultant

Digital currency consulting: CBDC research and confidential regulatory work

2020-2022

OpenCBDC / Project Hamilton (Contractor)

Software Engineer

Co-author of the CBDC transaction processor, primary author of its Test Controller, and co-developer of PArSEC (EVM smart contracts)

2018-2020

MIT Digital Currency Initiative (Contractor)

Software Engineer

PoolDetective, Discreet Log Contracts, distributed ledger technology

1998-2018

Decos

Software Engineer → Tech Lead

20 years: From junior at age 14 to leading international teams

1988

The Beginning

MSX-BASIC

Started coding at age 5

Years of Experience

38

Projects

50+