Software engineer and architect, passionate about tech and a curious learner.

I'm Jakob Blume, a freelance software engineer out of Halle in the middle of Germany. My drive is seeking for solutions of big and small problems and the ability to build literally anything from my laptop. There is nothing more rewarding than solving problems and see people using the solution.

An underdog postman alternative: Bruno

I tried a Postman alternative and was impressed by how easily some problems could be solved when the business model doesn’t get in the way.

A stable container runtime for MacOS

Having never been truly satisfied with Docker for Desktop on macOS, I came across Orbstack through a tweet and decided to give it a try.

Developing & Scaling Go at HUK Coburg

Over the past three years, I have enhanced Go services and mentored developers in a corporate setting. I improved performance, implemented best practices, and created blueprints for scalable development, enabling the team to deliver robust, maintainable services efficiently.

"Gather" a convinsing Metaverse use case

The Metaverse is largely quite unfamiliar to me. However, Gather stands out as an exception as a communication platform. At EntwicklerHeld, we used it daily, which helped to mitigate the effects of the pandemic to some extent and made remote work more bearable.

Work

  1. Company
    HUK Coburg
    Role
    Freelancer
    Date
  2. Company
    S-Markt & Mehrwert
    Role
    Freelancer
    Date
  3. Company
    EntwicklerHeld GmbH
    Role
    Co-Founder
    Date
  4. Company
    polylith GbR
    Role
    Co-Founder
    Date
  5. Company
    DevBoost GmbH
    Role
    Internship
    Date
  6. Company
    BMW AG
    Role
    Internship & Working Student
    Date
  7. Company
    MonkeyWorks GmbH
    Role
    Internship
    Date
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