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Jakob Laegdsmand
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Jakob is a web developer and solution architect with broad expertise, 15+ years of work experience and excellent communication skills. An artisan and a purist, he strives to consistently deliver pristine code. Enabling sustainable and creative organizations to achieve their goals and build tools/dashboards to help them accomplish their tasks is what he does best. Jakob works independently and functions well in a team. He founded his own SAAS product called “Roots of Me”.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Ruby on Rails (RoR), TypeScript, Sass, HTML5, Unit Testing, E2E Testing, Git, Git Flow, PostgreSQL
The most amazing...
...application I’ve developed is a desktop application that enables health professionals to create complete, beautiful, and inclusive genograms.
Work Experience
Owner | Full-stack Developer
Roots of Me
- Architected and developed an app used by health professionals and therapists to create beautiful, inclusive, and complete genograms.
- Managed an independent software firm and released a successful SaaS application.
- Created a training platform to educate and train people online.
Owner | Full-stack Developer
Freelance
- Developed websites for many different companies of varying sizes as a freelance developer.
- Provided helpful advice as a technological and architectural sparring partner for numerous clients.
- Successfully managed an independent business and gained new clients through networking events.
Scrum Master | Tech Lead
Globld International
- Recruited, managed, and facilitated a scrum team consisting of different disciplines.
- Architected and developed a 3D-visualization tool to inspect buildings and properties from point-cloud data.
- Mentored a junior developer to become a skilled front-end developer.
Scrum Master | Developer
RTL Nederland
- Developed and maintained a high-availability website with hundreds of thousands of visitors every month.
- Migrated a legacy back-end system written in .NET to a more modern Node.js architecture.
- Maintained and distributed an internal JavaScript tooling library available to departments within the company.
Front-end Developer
1% Club
- Developed templates and front-end components for the 1% Club website.
- Developed components for an open-source framework for crowd-funding websites.
- Developed front-end code for a social initiative website for Booking.com employees as part of a pressure-cooker Scrum team.
Developer
MagStream
- Developed a standalone digital magazine for iPad featured as "App of the Month" in the Apple App Store.
- Developed the in-house framework to convert magazines created in a proprietary format to HTML5 for tablets.
- Converted, developed, and released many commercial digital magazines for iPad.
- Developed custom micro games and campaigns for usage alongside digital magazines.
Developer
Code
- Developed numerous custom websites from Adobe Photoshop designs and mock-ups.
- Designed and built components for the in-house CMS framework.
- Maintained direct contact with clients and operated autonomously.
Tridion Developer
Leiden University
- Developed a large website with over 20,000 pages and many subsites.
- Developed a media bank for use by the university subsites.
- Developed on a rebuild of the part of the site engine in PHP and MySQL.
Java Developer
Sogeti
- Worked on-site for clients as a representative of Sogeti on varying assignments.
- Passed initial examination as a “Sun Certified Programmer” and “Sun Certified Developer” within three months.
- Completed a business course which included public speaking at the University of Athens (Ohio) as part of the initial training.
Experience
Roots of Me
It consists of:
• An electron based desktop application
• REST APIs
• A dashboard for subscription management
• A complete training environment
Commercial Website for a Broadcasting Company
https://www.rtl.nl/• I helped migrate an existing codebase from Angular to React and built a Node.js API.
• I managed and developed an internal JavaScript tooling library used by many departments inside the organization. We hosted this using semantic versioning.
• I helped architect and implement a complete CI system based on Jenkins and Git to bring the code changes into staging and production.
Online Learning and Visual Feedback Application
• I developed many new features for this application.
• I improved performance for peak hours, when a big group of students would follow a course and submit their work all at once.
• I upgraded the codebase from HTML and Angular to React in one month in a major rewrite.
Skills
Languages
JavaScript, Ruby, TypeScript, Sass, HTML5, Dart, Java, PHP, Rust, Python, CSS, VBScript, HTML, Bash, Swift
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails (RoR), Electron, Capybara, Jest, YARN, Bootstrap, Unity, CodeIgniter, Cypress, Express.js, Koa, Laravel, OAuth 2, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Flutter
Libraries/APIs
React, MobX, Devise, Playwright, jQuery, Three.js, Node.js, MooTools
Paradigms
Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Functional Programming, Test-driven Development (TDD), Automated Testing, REST, Scrum, Unit Testing, E2E Testing
Platforms
MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Heroku, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker
Tools
RSpec, NPM, Git, Zsh, Tridion, GitLab, Subversion (SVN)
Other
ActiveAdmin, Git Flow, Architecture, Hybrid Frameworks, Scrum Master, App Store, APIs
Storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL, PostGIS
Certifications
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
Sun Certified Java Developer
Sun Microsystems
Sun Certified Java Programmer
Sun Microsystems
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