Herbert Jordan has been a Researcher and Engineer for the Fantom Foundation since 2022. He has earned his PhD in Computer Science for his work on compilers in 2014. Since then, he worked on a high-performance query engine for deductive databases for Oracle, has been the scientific coordinator of an EU funded compiler research project, and worked on large-scale performance monitoring solutions for Google. Currently, he is working on EVM implementations and storage solutions to boost the efficiency and capacity of blockchains.