Volkan Jacobsen
Managing Partner And Backend Developer At Factorial.io
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolVolkan Jacobsen is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Factorial.io, where he leads backend development for an open-source design and development agency he helped start in 2015. With over two decades of hands-on experience in software development, consulting and solution architecture, he has focused the last 11+ years on building robust web applications and digital transformation solutions for NGOs, agencies and enterprises. His background in communication science informs a user-centered approach to technical design, blending clear strategy with pragmatic engineering. Based in Hamburg, he combines entrepreneurial leadership with day-to-day coding, often stepping into freelance and consultancy roles across Drupal and bespoke web projects before founding Factorial. Notably, his career began in grassroots NGO digitalization work in the Netherlands, which still shapes his emphasis on thoughtful, mission-driven technology.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor, Communication science, bachelor, Communication science at Radboud University
German, French, English, Dutch, Turkish
Github Skills (96)
factorial10
circleci10
drupal10
cli9
behat9
vim-plugin9
symfony-console9
vim9
psysh9
php9
drush9
neovim9
scripting9
finder9
knife9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
factorial-io/frontend
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 40 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
hamldrupaltcmfrontend
factorial-io/fatmin
Jul 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:39 pushes, 4 branches, 5 tags in 1 year 1 month
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