Jakub Kottnauer is a Senior Software Engineer based in Stockholm with a decade of experience building full-stack web applications and developer tooling. He has driven front-end and back-end work across React, Node.js, Python and TypeScript, delivering live configuration tooling adopted across EA studios and financial trading platforms. Comfortable shifting between UI polish and database schema design, he contributed key features and import/UX fixes to an open-source personal finance OS (maybe) and champions automation—“automate all the things”—in both hobby and production projects. His background includes mentoring and technical leadership on complex integrations (React into Liferay, modular front-end architectures) and a master’s in Web Engineering. Colleagues rely on him to turn fuzzy product needs into pragmatic, maintainable systems that scale beyond single teams.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Web Engineering, Master's degree Web Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague
Computer Science, Computer Science at Edinburgh Napier University
Contributions:15 reviews, 26 PRs, 49 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jakub contributed significantly to both the front-end and back-end aspects of the "maybe" project. Their work involved implementing new features like transaction categories, including database schema modifications (PostgreSQL), model creation, and controller logic. They also addressed UI improvements, particularly focusing on the category selection dropdown and fixing modal height issues. Further contributions included various bug fixes across different Stimulus controllers, as well as improvements to the import process.
High performance <canvas> rendering for React components
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 11 months
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Jakub Kottnauer - Senior Software Engineer at TTK Games