Jakob Hilarius
Principal Software Engineer at Grazper
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolJakob Hilarius is a Principal Software Engineer based in Copenhagen with 25 years of hands-on development experience and 13 years in senior professional roles, blending deep technical craft with product and business-facing leadership. He has a proven track record building payment, kiosk and voucher platforms, high-throughput in-store receipt and loyalty systems handling millions of daily transactions, and shipping backend APIs for Android-based payment terminals. As former CTO and co-owner roles show, he moves comfortably between strategic architecture and shipping production-ready systems, most recently translating AI research into robust products. His background spans startups and consultancies across Nordic markets, with early work on mobile banking, media platforms and aviation document systems that inform a pragmatic, security- and scale-minded approach. Colleagues know him as an engineer whose hobby-level dedication keeps him coding alongside leading teams.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern DenmarkRoskilde Katedralskole
Danish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
linux9
windows9
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angularjs6
css6
jquery6
cocoa6
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java6
javascript6
jsp6
swift5
plex5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hitolaus/hitolaus.github.io
Dec 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 9 months
hitolaus/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:10 pushes in 9 years 8 months
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