Jakob Karge
Software Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarJakob Karge is a seasoned software engineer based in Berlin with 15 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining production systems. Describing himself as a "Software Archaeologist," he specializes in unraveling and modernizing legacy codebases to make them robust and maintainable. Jakob combines pragmatic engineering with a deep appreciation for historical design decisions, enabling efficient refactors and safe feature delivery. He thrives in complex code environments where understanding past intent is as important as shipping new functionality.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (200)
libgit210
look-and-feel10
automation10
cpp10
python-scripts10
avs10
mpd-client10
single-file10
groovy10
synchronization10
webrtc10
filesystem10
visualization10
transcode10
aur-helper10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
grandchild/git-changelog-lib
May 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 4 months
changeloggit-repositoryreleasenotesparsing
grandchild/AVS-File-Decoder-Qt
Oct 2013 - Sep 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 1 push in 4 years
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