Jonathan Wolff is a programmer, former physicist, and Web3 developer with expertise in the Ethereum blockchain. He has been an active developer in the Web3 space since 2017 and is the founder of Isentropy and Beacon Protocol. ^[1]​

Education

Jonathan Wolff completed his undergraduate studies at Harvard University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Physics, magna cum laude, between 1997 and 2001. He later received a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University, attending from 2002 to 2003. Wolff completed his secondary education at Hunter College High School from 1991 to 1997. ^[2]

Career

Jonathan Wolff has worked across software engineering, quantitative research, and blockchain infrastructure. Since 2013, he has served as Founder and Director of Engineering at Isentropy, a technology consulting firm focused on distributed systems, security, and blockchain applications. In this role, he has led the design and development of smart contract systems primarily on Ethereum and Solana, contributed to open-source blockchain tooling, and advised organizations on decentralized protocols and data-sharing architectures.

Prior to founding Isentropy, Wolff worked as a data science consultant at Ideeli from 2011 to 2013, where he developed recommendation systems and analytics pipelines using large-scale distributed computing tools. He was a Quantitative Research Analyst at Ronin Capital from 2010 to 2011, focusing on the development and analysis of high-frequency trading strategies. Earlier, he served as a Software Engineer at Yahoo between 2009 and 2010, analyzing large-scale search data and building distributed processing frameworks.

From 2006 to 2009, Wolff was a Senior Engineer at Properazzi, where he designed core machine learning and data processing systems for an international real estate search platform, including multilingual text analysis, geolocation, and distributed computation. ^{[1] [2]}