Summary
Jakob Kerkhove is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building front-end and mobile experiences across companies from Booking.com and Shopify to DataCamp and StreamYard. Based in Barcelona, he specializes in JavaScript-driven interfaces and has repeatedly taken senior front-end roles that bridge product UX and scalable engineering. His recent trajectory includes mobile engineering at DataCamp and a senior role at Superbet, reflecting versatility across web and native platforms. Jakob has worked in diverse industries—travel, e-commerce, streaming, education, and wellness—showing an ability to adapt frameworks and patterns to domain needs. Colleagues describe him as a reliable senior engineer who brings pragmatic architecture and hands-on implementation to shipping polished user-facing features. An uncommon detail: his career progression includes both startup-stage product roles and larger platform teams, giving him fluency in fast iteration and production-grade stability.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Howest, University College West Flanders
Science, Technology and Society, Science, Technology and Society at The Washington Center
English, Dutch