Benjamin Jakobus is a Staff Engineer with over a decade of full-stack experience, currently shaping products at a large fintech from his base in Rio de Janeiro. He brings deep front-end expertise in React/Redux, TypeScript, Tailwind and GraphQL alongside backend experience in Java, Kotlin, Python/Django, Node.js and Rails, and has led teams as a senior engineer and technical lead. An Imperial College M.Sc. in Advanced Computing and author of two editions of "Mastering Bootstrap 4," he blends rigorous academic training with a habit of producing practical, published technical work. His career spans startups, research labs and enterprise — from co-founding a software shop to delivering product solutions at Keelvar — which gives him a rare fluency in both prototyping and scaling production systems. Colleagues value his ability to move between UI detail and backend architecture while mentoring engineers across remote teams.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Advanced Computing, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Advanced Computing at Imperial College London
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University College Cork
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