Jacob Overgaard
Team Lead & Frontend Architect at Umbraco
Hvidbjerg, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Overgaard is a pragmatic frontend architect and team lead with 12 years of experience building and scaling web and e-commerce systems, currently guiding the Umbraco CMS team. He blends hands-on frontend engineering (React, Angular, TypeScript) with backend and DevOps sensibilities (.NET Core, CI/CD, Git) to deliver software that “just works” and reduce repetitive work across teams. A proven technology evangelist, Jacob has introduced tooling and processes—JIRA, Git migrations, automated workflows—that materially improve developer productivity. He contributes to the open-source Umbraco CMS, adding backend features and language support, and enjoys building practical tools, guides, and developer-first workflows in his spare time. Notably, he trains a near-prophetic sense for when to invest extra engineering effort to avoid future rework, turning experience into predictable delivery.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
AP Computer Science, AP Computer Science at Erhvervsakademi Aarhus | Business Academy AarhusHigh School HTX, High School HTX at Struer Erhvervsskole
Danish, English, German
Github Skills (8)
net10
asp-net10
umbraco10
cms10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
umbraco/Umbraco-CMS
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Umbraco is a free and open source .NET content management system helping you deliver delightful digital experiences.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 309 reviews, 63 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jacob's primary contributions involve enhancing the Umbraco CMS back-end functionality. Their work includes implementing features to allow admins to disable 2FA for other users, adding language picker functionality, and adding structure for languages and allowedLanguages within the user group model, as well as fixing a regression. The user also contributed to the core models of the CMS.
cmscontent-management-systemheadless-cmsaspumbraco
iOvergaard/UmbracoDocs
May 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:76 pushes, 28 branches in 1 year 4 months
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