Hello. I'm Jakob Blume, a software engineer and architect.

I am happily married and live with my wife and three children in Halle an der Saale. Even though this page is almost exclusively about my projects, my family takes up a very significant part of my life and sometimes shows me what life is really about :)

As a freelance IT architect and software engineer, I am eager to leverage my expertise to benefit clients. Driven by a relentless desire to solve problems efficiently and deploy solutions swiftly, I bring a start-up mentality to overcoming organizational challenges while delivering sustainable, modern, user-friendly solutions.

Throughout my career journey, nothing has shaped me as much as diving straight into self-employment after my studies, followed by founding EntwicklerHeld GmbH. I had the honor of starting and building a company with some of the best co-founders one could imagine. Together, we achieved the following milestones:

• Successfully obtained an Exist Founder Scholarship
• Successfully obtained an SAB Founder Scholarship
• EntwicklerHeld GmbH founded in 2018
• Closing a pre-seed and seed round with business angels and venture capitalists
• Building the EntwicklerHeld platform with more than 30,000 developers
• Acquisition of prestigious clients such as Check24, ProSieben, ARAG, Mercedes, and Deutsche Bahn, among others
• Organizing and coordinating a company with 15 employees

Bullet points and figures alone, however, cannot convey the experiences that such a founding period imparts on the journey ahead.