Christoffer Jakobsen
Principal Software Engineer at Very Good Ventures
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChristoffer Jakobsen is a Principal Software Engineer based in New York with 15 years of experience building Android and Wear OS applications for well-known global brands. He combines a user-centric mindset with tight collaboration across product, design, and QA to deliver polished mobile experiences. A long tenure at ustwo followed by a leadership role at Very Good Ventures reflects deep domain expertise and a track record of evolving teams and apps over time. He brings practised judgment on platform-specific challenges and performance trade-offs, pairing hands-on implementation with architectural oversight. Trained with an M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from Lund, he quietly favors pragmatic solutions that scale across phone and wearable form factors.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science and Engineering at Lunds tekniska högskola / The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
Swedish, English
Stackoverflow
4,758reputation
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175answers
5questions
android
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Github Skills (10)
face10
android-wear10
android9
face-detection9
google-fit6
android-studio6
textview6
wearos6
android-view6
java6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
ustwo/clockwise
Sep 2015 - Sep 2016
Watch face framework for Android Wear developed by ustwo
Contributions:19 commits, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 11 months
wearandroidandroid-wearface-detectionface
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