Lars Jacob
Software Architect at NodeConf Argentina
Argentina
Summary
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Top SchoolLars Jacob is a software architect and former physics researcher with 26 years of technical experience and more than a decade building fast-moving startups and security-focused products. He has led and scaled engineering teams at Auth0 and Okta, and now consults as a freelance architect specializing in authentication/authorization, testing, and DevOps best practices. Comfortable across the stack, he combines hands-on Node.js development, Kubernetes and cloud platforms with pragmatic architecture and CI/CD tooling. Having lived in four countries and co-organized NodeConf Argentina, he thrives in distributed, diverse teams and community-driven engineering. His background in scientific computing and early systems administration gives him a rigorous, measurement-driven approach to performance and observability. Known for hiring and mentoring strong teams, he blends technical depth with operational discipline to deliver secure, scalable systems.
26 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at Universität PotsdamComputación, Computer Science, not completed, Computación, Computer Science, not completed at Universidad de Buenos Aires / UBAOrganizer, Organizer at BANode
German, Spanish, English
Github Skills (45)
sampling8
responder6
google-cloud-monitoring6
gatsbyjs5
chrome5
cloud-monitoring5
devtools5
google-cloud-platform4
las4
nodejs4
profiling4
python4
google-cloud4
xvfb3
monitoring3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jaclar/website_34_sur
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Gatsby website sources for 34-sur.com
Contributions:6 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
gatsbygatsbyjssourcesgatsby-website
jaclar/bully
Apr 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year
node-jsp2pdistributed-systemmasterpeer-to-peer
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