Jakob Grunig
Principal Consultant at Equal Experts
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJakob Grunig is a Principal Consultant and hands-on tech lead with over two decades of backend development experience, specialising in Java, Scala and cloud-native microservices. He combines delivery-focused leadership with deep technical craft—leading migrations to GCP, introducing CD practices that moved teams to per-commit production deployments, and optimising high-traffic services with Varnish and performance testing. Jakob has practical experience applying AI-assisted development workflows and even codified a plan-first LLM playbook used to improve reliability of generated code. Comfortable across enterprise and public-sector contexts, he’s shipped API-driven systems (including contributions to HMRC’s email renderer) and mentors teams to adopt data-driven experimentation and rigorous engineering practices. Known for pragmatic architecture, attention to detail and a bias for measurable outcomes, he pairs continuous learning with a proven track record of scaling systems and teams.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
100/110 information technology, 100/110 information technology at Università degli Studi di TorinoIstituto Magistrale Statale "Leonardo da Vinci"
English, Italian, German, French
Github Skills (7)
api10
template-engine10
playframework10
apidoc10
scala10
testing9
message-queue7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/hmrc-email-renderer
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 24 PRs, 35 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jakob primarily focused on back-end development, evidenced by implementing API endpoints and modifying service layer code. They integrated new email templates and adjusted the priority of existing templates within the application. Additionally, they fixed unit tests within the repository.
hmrc/sbt-bobby
Feb 2015 - Jul 2018
Sbt plugin that can be used to enforce or warn when libraries and dependencies need to be upgraded
Contributions:32 commits, 5 PRs, 31 pushes in 3 years 5 months
sbt-plugin
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