Jakob Cosoroabă
Staff Software Engineer at Vizlegal
Samtens, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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Top SchoolJakob Cosoroabă is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling web platforms across domains from fintech and e-commerce to legal tech. Currently at Vizlegal, he owns reliability for a legacy Elixir/Ruby stack while driving future-proofing efforts like AI/NLP workflows and vendor integrations, and spends roughly 20% of his time mentoring junior engineers. He has hands-on experience designing high-performance search and ETL pipelines that process millions of legal documents and has shipped full-stack features from concept to production using Vue.js and modern CI/CD practices. A pragmatic problem-solver with a history of leading cross-disciplinary teams and consulting, he also contributes to open-source tooling—improving build processes in the popular yeoman/generator-webapp project. Based in Germany, he prefers to focus on meaningful product domains (not gaming or ecommerce) and brings a rare blend of deep legacy-system knowledge and forward-looking architecture.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Technical University of MunichBSc Applied Computer Science, BSc Applied Computer Science at Universitatea Transilvania din BrașovHigh School Physical Sciences, High School Physical Sciences at Colegiu National „Samuel von Brukenthal“ Sibiu
German, English, Romanian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
yeoman10
gulp10
javascript9
html8
css7
audio6
java6
rake6
sitemap6
typo36
ruby-on-rails6
mysql6
migration6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
yeoman/generator-webapp
Apr 2014 - May 2014
A gulp.js generator for modern webapps
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jakob primarily focused on improving the build process and template files of the web application generator. They fixed a typo in a configuration option related to `useref`. The user also updated the `gulpfile.js` to copy non-HTML files to the distribution directory and ensured dotfiles are included. Furthermore, they removed references to deprecated technologies like Compass in the template files, improving the generator's maintainability.
gulp-plugingulpjavascriptyeomangulp-js
jcsrb/til
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:96 commits, 101 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 8 months
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