Summary
Herman Jakobsen is a software engineer based in Oslo with 8 years of experience building cloud-integrated, real-time data systems for critical power grid infrastructure. He has served as tech lead on Statnett projects, designing microservices in Java/Kotlin that ingest Kafka streams, enforce data quality, and integrate with Azure Synapse while maintaining high uptime and low latency. Equally comfortable in hands-on development and team leadership, he has combined roles as developer, Scrum Master, and mentor, guiding junior engineers and aligning technical solutions with product needs. His background in cybernetics and robotics (NTNU, exchange at KAIST) informs a systems-oriented approach to reliability and observability, exemplified by work with Prometheus and Grafana. Outside core delivery he has coordinated large intern programs and helped drive migrations from on-prem data lakes to cloud platforms, showing an appetite for operational as well as architectural challenges.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange student, Cybernetics and Robotics, Exchange student, Cybernetics and Robotics at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Vestby Videregående skole
Norwegian University of Science and Technology