Summary
Nils Jacobsen is a Senior Design Engineer based in Munich with 6 years of experience building full‑stack products that prioritize design, UX, and product strategy across startups, R&D and agency settings. He co‑creates developer tools and consumer-facing products—most notably Legit, Stage, Melo and Zirkular—combining hands‑on frontend engineering with component systems and product thinking. Recent roles include building AI-driven agent flows that translate natural language into SQL and visualizations, and developing shared design components for inlang’s ecosystem. His background spans electrical engineering and interaction design, which shows in a pragmatic approach to prototyping hardware-adjacent lab automation and microcontroller projects early in his career. Known for turning “paper to code,” he thrives at the intersection of design and engineering, shipping delightful user experiences while scaling developer workflows.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Design, Art, Technology, Design, Art, Technology at ArtEZ University of the Arts
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)
Abitur, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Abitur, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Technisches Gymnasium Schwäbisch Gmünd
Bachelor's degree, Interaction Design, Bachelor's degree, Interaction Design at Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd
German, English, Spanish