Thomas Jacob
Staff Engineer (Frontend) at SprintFinger | Visualize your agile sprints on a calendar timeline
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolThomas Jacob is a seasoned frontend-focused Staff Engineer based in Hamburg with 15 years of professional experience and a theoretical CS diploma from the University of Hamburg. He blends deep front-end craftsmanship—TypeScript, React, styled-components and CLI tooling—with Java fullstack experience from long-term roles at SinnerSchrader and PRÄMIE DIREKT. As a tech lead and pragmatic maker, he has contributed to notable open-source UI tooling like Alva, implementing component-driven prototypes and experimenting with TypeScript type reflection for dynamic properties. He has shipped production web apps and developer-facing tools across startups and agencies, while also maintaining long-running personal projects like a party jukebox and sprint visualizer that reveal a playful, product-minded engineering style. Colleagues rely on him for architecture, practical automation, and steady delivery across both product and platform initiatives.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Theoretische Informatik, Diplom Theoretische Informatik at University of Hamburg
German, English, French
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Github Skills (23)
component-design10
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
javascript9
cli8
sys8
styled-components8
system8
carbon-design-system8
system-design8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
meetalva/alva
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Create living prototypes with code components.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:144 commits, 94 PRs, 365 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Alva project, focusing on the creation of UI components with code components. Their work involved implementing TypeScript and a command-line interface (CLI), and they engaged in testing the functionality of these components. The user also experimented with parsing and reflecting type information from TypeScript declaration files, likely for dynamic property handling. They also made modifications to the project's build configuration, and introduced the use of React and styled-components, contributing to the overall architecture.
reactprototypesdesigndesign-systemtypescript
TheReincarnator/leguino
Dec 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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