Tom Jakobsen
Senior Consultant at Item Consulting as
Tromsø, Troms og Finnmark, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Jakobsen is a senior consultant and full-stack developer with 11 years of experience building secure, accessible, and high-quality web applications from Norway's Tromsø. He brings deep Java/Scala and JavaScript expertise—ranging from Play/Akka and Tomcat backends to Vue/Angular frontends—and a strong testing mindset using jUnit, Mockito, Mocha and Selenium. Tom has contributed to notable open-source education projects (H5P plugins and interactive video), improving accessibility, editor compatibility and multilingual support, showing attention to UX and backward compatibility. Comfortable across relational and NoSQL databases and search/security tools like ElasticSearch and Keycloak, he pairs practical engineering with an eye for maintainable architectures. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful integration work, developer tooling, and pragmatic DI patterns (Dagger/Guava), reflecting a blend of systems-level thinking and front-end polish.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science, Computer Science, Master of Computer Science, Computer Science at UiT- The Arctic University of Norway
English, Norwegian, German, Swedish, Danish
Stackoverflow
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36answers
12questions
Github Skills (18)
accessibility10
javascript10
moodle10
css10
user-interface10
backward-compatibility10
php10
front-end-development10
html10
localization7
xml6
collections6
encryption6
lambda6
dictionary6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
h5p/h5p-interactive-video
Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:121 commits, 1 PR, 102 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Tom primarily worked on enhancing the user experience and implementing accessibility features within the interactive video component. Their contributions included modifying the interaction button, implementing dialogs, and adjusting the display of content to improve overall usability. They also fixed button focus and added a focus effect on the interactions. These changes focused on improving the accessibility and overall user experience for the H5P interactive video content type.
h5p/moodle-mod_hvp
Jan 2017 - Aug 2017
H5P Plugin for Moodle
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on improving the functionality and user experience of the H5P plugin for Moodle. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to the editor's display and compatibility, adding backwards compatibility for older Moodle versions, and adapting the editor for different themes. The user also addressed issues related to file handling and grade calculation. Furthermore, the user's work included enhancements to the French and German language packs.
h5p-pluginbackbonejsmoodleemacs-packagesh5p
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