Jacob Laursen
Advisory Senior Developer at KMD
North Denmark Region, Denmark
Summary
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RockstarJacob Laursen is an experienced Advisory Senior Developer with over two decades of hands-on software engineering across SAP ABAP, .NET/C#, C/C++ and embedded C, currently focused on Opus Vagtplan development at KMD. He combines deep payroll and HR domain expertise—having implemented SAP time evaluation, payroll migration tools and integrations with tax systems—with modern backend work and system administration on Linux. Jacob is an active contributor to the openHAB ecosystem, fixing core bugs and improving bindings for device integrations, showing a practical interest in IoT interoperability. Comfortable across databases (Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server), desktop and web stacks, and multiple languages from Python to assembler, he often bridges legacy mainframe-era systems and contemporary service architectures. Notably, he has repeatedly taken technical lead responsibilities such as offshore technical contact and solution reviewer, reflecting a balance of delivery focus and quality assurance.
5 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, Danish
Github Skills (18)
apidoc10
openhab10
internet-of-things10
java10
javas10
iot10
api10
system-integration10
sensor-fusion10
rest-api10
home-automation10
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
jtest7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openhab/openhab-addons
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Add-ons for openHAB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6089 reviews, 185 commits, 2006 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jacob's contributions focused on the openHAB add-ons repository, specifically addressing functionality within the "danfossairunit" and "hdpowerview" bindings. Their work included implementing new channels, modifying channel types, and addressing bugs. The user’s impact involved improving the device data processing of existing bindings.
openhabjavaadd-ons
openhab/openhab-core
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Core framework of openHAB
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:102 reviews, 8 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the OpenHAB core framework. Their work involved correcting documentation, modifying parameter descriptions, and migrating code to use `Instant` instead of `LocalDateTime`. They also addressed access token serialization/deserialization issues, and improved UPnP callback removal.
openhabjavahome-automationinternet-of-thingsiot
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