Kenn Jacobsen
Principal Engineer at Umbraco
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region
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Top SchoolKenn Jacobsen is a Principal Engineer and .NET specialist with over 20 years of experience building enterprise-grade applications and implementing ALM across three continents. He’s a deep expert in Umbraco CMS—four-time Umbraco MVP and long-time core contributor whose work has improved media rendering, URL handling, and plugin language features in the flagship umbraco/Umbraco-CMS repository. At Umbraco since 2022 he progressed from Senior Developer to Principal Engineer, combining hands-on backend development with community leadership and platform stewardship. His background spans domains as diverse as aircraft self-defence systems and wind turbines, reflecting a knack for translating complex, safety- or scale-sensitive requirements into pragmatic software. Based in Aarhus, Denmark, he pairs institutional knowledge of .NET ecosystems with a rare combination of community-driven open-source influence and production delivery experience.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Batchelor, Software development, Batchelor, Software development at Engineering College of Aarhus
English, Danish
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Github Skills (6)
cms10
asp-net-core10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
databases8
database8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
umbraco/Umbraco-CMS
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Umbraco is a free and open source .NET content management system helping you deliver delightful digital experiences.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:445 reviews, 636 commits, 1366 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kenn contributed to the core content management system functionality. Their work focused on ensuring the correct rendering of media within rich text editors, updating image sources, and integrating media resolution within the RTE. Additionally, the user improved the codebase's functionality by enhancing plugin language handling. The user's changes also encompassed fixing issues related to URL management and member type features.
cmscontent-management-systemheadless-cmsaspumbraco
kjac/FormEditor
Dec 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:47 releases, 96 commits, 133 PRs in 2 years 10 months
form-builderumbracobuilderleteditors
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