Gerben Jacobs
Software Engineer at ING Nederland
Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolGerben Jacobs is a pragmatic senior software engineer and tech lead with 12 years of experience building and scaling backend and observability platforms across fintech and messaging companies. He has hands-on expertise in Go and microservices, having led migration and API projects at GitHub, MessageBird and Kramp that improved scalability and developer ergonomics. Currently at ING Nederland he helps teams adopt logging, metrics and tracing through a self-serve observability platform, blending platform engineering with developer advocacy. Comfortable switching between individual contributor and team lead roles, he’s known for introducing idiomatic Go patterns and production-ready guidelines that stick. Based in Gelderland, Netherlands, he brings a track record of turning complex distributed systems into maintainable, well-instrumented services.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
HAVO Economics and ICT, HAVO Economics and ICT at Marnix CollegeBachelor of IT Computer Sciences, Bachelor of IT Computer Sciences at HAN University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (101)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gerbenjacobs/HabboAPI
Nov 2014 - Oct 2022
A PHP wrapper for the (undocumented) Habbo API
Contributions:5 releases, 85 commits, 29 PRs in 8 years
apihabbophpphp-wrapperpackagist
gerbenjacobs/gerbenjacobs.github.io
Aug 2015 - Dec 2022
My personal blog -- mostly about tech
Contributions:82 commits, 13 PRs, 153 pushes in 7 years 4 months
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