Nicholas Jakobsen
CTO at Culture Code Software Consulting
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Jakobsen is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 17 years in software and over a decade in development and project management, currently serving as CTO of Combinaut and president of Culture Code. A UBC-trained software engineer based in Vancouver, he blends hands-on back-end engineering with executive leadership to ship practical, scalable systems. His open-source work includes meaningful contributions to the widely used Sunspot Solr integration for Ruby—adding range faceting, memory optimizations, and legacy Rails compatibility—demonstrating a penchant for improving search performance and robustness. He has a long-standing track record of delivering production software in cultural and commercial contexts, bringing both entrepreneurial grit and deep systems knowledge to product and architecture decisions.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Software Engineering at UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering
Github Skills (8)
solr-search10
search-engine10
solr10
ruby10
ruby-rails9
rails9
activerecord9
rspec8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sunspot/sunspot
Jul 2012 - Sep 2015
Solr-powered search for Ruby objects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 80 commits, 24 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the Sunspot library, focusing on features and optimizations related to Solr integration. They added support for range-based faceting, allowing for more flexible search filtering. Furthermore, they optimized memory usage within the `solr_index_orphans` functionality and addressed compatibility issues with older Rails versions. The user also enhanced the search functionality by supporting empty arrays in restrictions, streamlining the query logic.
searchrubysolrsolr-search-enginesunspot
culturecode/uber_select
Oct 2015 - Aug 2023
Contributions:16 reviews, 13 PRs, 135 pushes in 7 years 11 months
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