Jakob Jónasson
Vice President Of Engineering at Lucinity
Hafnarfjordur, Iceland
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Top SchoolJakob Jónasson is a vice president of engineering with 12 years of hands-on experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms, currently leading AI-powered FinCrime solutions at Lucinity. He has a proven track record scaling systems to 30,000+ requests/sec for thousands of enterprise customers, migrating complex Atlassian-platforms to AWS and implementing Kubernetes, CI/CD and observability to achieve 99.9%+ uptime. A pragmatic, technical leader who still codes and conducts design reviews, Jakob grew from first-hire developer to director managing ~50 engineers across eight teams and introduced SAFe and OKRs to improve delivery predictability. He also creates technical content via his "Code Made Simple" YouTube channel and experiments with AI tools to boost engineering productivity, blending public-facing knowledge sharing with deep system-level expertise. Based in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, he combines product-minded architecture with measurable business impact—focusing on developer experience and AI-enabled tooling to accelerate revenue-generating features.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Business/Commerce, General, Business/Commerce, General at Verslunarskólinn í ReykjavíkBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Reykjavik University
Spanish, English, Danish
Github Skills (69)
github10
testing10
rest-services10
dto10
javascript10
sinon10
stubs10
ava10
mocks10
test-automation10
git10
java10
tdd10
mocking10
object-mapper10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kobbikobb/Cachew
Oct 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 8 months
memorywindsorcastlecachingcastle-windsor
kobbikobb/guessthename
Dec 2021 - Mar 2023
Guess the name of a child or pet to be named.
Contributions:2 reviews, 184 commits, 298 PRs in 1 year 2 months
guessjavascriptchild
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