Jan Jakobsen
Senior Manager, Automation And Tooling
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolJan Jakobsen is a Senior Manager in Automation and Tooling with 25+ years in software, blending a decade of hands-on development with 15 years specializing in testing, CI/CD and test architecture. Currently leading an international SDET team at Unity, he focuses on CI pipelines, test infrastructure and optimizing test coverage to scale quality across complex products. His background spans industry leaders—Maersk, Microsoft, Intel and NOV—where he shifted testing left, advanced automation practices and delivered system-level tooling that bridged engineering and operations. Trained as a civil and hydroinformatics engineer, he brings a systems-thinking approach to software quality, often applying simulation and numerical-model rigor to testing strategies. Known for moving between individual contributor, architect and people-leader roles, he excels at turning messy legacy processes into reliable, automated pipelines.
5 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Technical University of DenmarkMsc, HydroInformatics, Msc, HydroInformatics at Delft University of Technology
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Github Skills (14)
scriptable10
render10
shader9
post-processing9
unity3d9
pipeline8
api5
rest-api4
nodejs4
rest4
collaboration2
api-platform2
postman2
lifecycle1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
Unity-Technologies/Graphics
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Unity Graphics - Including Scriptable Render Pipeline
Contributions:4 reviews, 1 commit, 1 PR in 1 day
renderpost-processingpipelinescriptableunity
postmanlabs/postman-app-support
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.
Contributions:1 comment in 1 day
streamlinesapiapi-platformlifecycleapi-lifecycle
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