Jacob Lärfors
Principal Engineer, Developer Productivity at SOK
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolJacob Lärfors is a Principal Engineer focused on developer productivity with 14 years of experience helping teams adopt cloud-native practices and continuous delivery. He combines hands-on platform engineering—building ML platforms on Kubernetes and developer-first tools in Go—with leadership experience as a founder and consultant, most recently guiding developer workflows at SOK after running Verifa. Jacob’s background spans startups and enterprise environments, advising on static analysis, test automation, and CI/CD across sectors and geographies. Based in Helsinki with an MSc in Computer Science, he blends technical depth with coaching and workshop experience, and is known for turning developer pain points into pragmatic tooling and processes. An open-minded tinkerer, he often bridges gaps between research, ops and product to accelerate team delivery.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of BathMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Helsinki
English, Swedish
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Github Skills (158)
jenkins-api-plugin10
messaging10
message-queue10
jenkins-plugin10
attestation10
hashicorp10
war10
configuration-language10
json10
message-bus10
hcl10
nats-jetstream9
validation9
text-based9
golang9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
verifa/terraplate
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
DRY Terraform with Go Templates
Contributions:2 reviews, 63 commits, 12 PRs in 11 months
golangdrift-detectiontemplatesterraformiac
verifa/coastline
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 64 commits, 13 PRs in 1 month
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