Jakob Steinn
Co-founder & Tech Lead at Stoneage
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolJakob Steinn is a self-taught full-stack engineer and serial founder with 11 years of hands-on experience building web systems, developer tools, and interactive front-end projects from Copenhagen. As Co-founder and Tech Lead at Instant and previously Good Tape, he combines product-minded leadership with day-to-day engineering across backend services, event-sourced Remix apps, and transcription pipelines. He has a strong Laravel and PHP pedigree—contributing robust bug fixes to the widely used laravel/framework and related illuminate packages—and regularly publishes experimental projects on GitHub. Comfortable owning infrastructure through to UI, Jakob favors pragmatic, open-bazaar collaboration and ships usable prototypes quickly while keeping production reliability in focus.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
9th Grade, 9th Grade at Eisbjerghus Efterskole
Icelandic, Danish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
application-framework10
console10
laravel-mix10
testing10
app-framework10
laravel10
php10
command-line10
collections10
web-framework10
unit-testing7
zurb-foundation6
ruby-on-rails6
flowplayer6
jquery6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cloudcreativity/laravel-json-api
Oct 2016 - Jun 2017
JSON API (jsonapi.org) package for Laravel applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 41 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jakob primarily contributed to the development of a JSON API package for Laravel applications. Their work involved implementing artisan generators for creating various JSON API resources, including hydrators, requests, schemas, search, and validators. The commits demonstrate the creation of configuration options, the adaptation of generators, and the integration of test infrastructure, focusing on features and command-line tools. These enhancements expanded the project's utility for Laravel developers.
json-apilaravelphp
laravel/framework
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jakob contributed to the Laravel framework, specifically addressing issues related to the `chunk` method in the `Collection` class. Their changes focused on handling edge cases, such as when a chunk size of zero or a negative size is provided, ensuring correct behavior and preventing unexpected errors. They also refactored the `chunk` method to return a new instance of the collection. These commits indicate a focus on improving the robustness and reliability of the collection functionality.
laravelphpframework
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