Jakob Otto
Product Lead - Web at YAZIO
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJakob Otto is a Product Lead for Web at YAZIO in Hamburg with seven years of experience blending product strategy, web development, and user-focused marketing. Rising through roles from Customer Care to Product Lead, he excels at translating user insights into measurable web products and has led cross-functional teams through growth-stage product iterations. Technically inclined, he contributes to open-source C++ networking work (actor-framework), showing hands-on backend skills alongside his product leadership. His academic background in interdisciplinary media and international study stints reflect a curiosity for cross-cultural product design and clear communication. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, with a knack for making complex systems feel delightfully simple.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Interdisciplinary Media Studies, 1.0, Master of Arts - MA, Interdisciplinary Media Studies, 1.0 at Bielefeld UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Communication Science & Social Sciences, 1.5, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Communication Science & Social Sciences, 1.5 at Universität ErfurtErasmus+ Programme, Erasmus+ Programme at Ghent UniversityErasmus+ Programme, Erasmus+ Programme at Tilburg UniversityAmerican English Program, Advanced, American English Program, Advanced at Rennert, Miami
German, English
Github Skills (5)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
networking10
network-programming10
actor-model10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
actor-framework/actor-framework
Apr 2019 - Aug 2021
An Open Source Implementation of the Actor Model in C++
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 288 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jakob focused on implementing a `scribe_policy` module within the actor framework, demonstrating a good understanding of network programming and actor model principles in C++. The contributions include defining the core functionality, implementing read and write event handling, and defining the configuration for read operations, indicating a focus on the networking layer of the framework. The user's work also includes integration with existing components of the actor framework, such as defining a test fixture class to facilitate the implementation of the policy.
actor-modelcppcafpattern-matchingactors
jakobod/caf-net-benchmarks
Nov 2019 - Oct 2020
Some benchmarks for the new libcaf_net network stack
Contributions:32 PRs, 164 pushes, 45 branches in 11 months
benchmarkbenchmarksbenchmarkinglatency
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