I’m Jakob. I live in Flensburg, on the German side of the Danish border, near the water. For close to a decade I’ve made infrastructure boring in the best way: predictable, cheap, and hard to knock over. I have no CS degree; I came up through IT and broke things until they made sense. What grabs me now is where security meets infrastructure, and the guardrails that decide whether a company can let AI near its systems without ending up in the news. I co-found things (currently baba), and I’m open to consulting and coaching on exactly that.

What I do

Build and secure infrastructure: cloud (mostly AWS), CI/CD, networks, identity. The plumbing nobody notices until it leaks. Lately that means keeping AI useful without letting it off the leash. I make the scary parts unscary.

What I care about

Owning your judgement, not renting it. Self-host what earns its keep, rent the cloud for the rest, and never pretend DIY comes free. Small sharp tools over sprawl. Cost and reliability as craft, not line items. Self-hosted bits at home, on principle. Doing things properly, without making a religion of it.

Off the clock

I run, not far but fast: 10Ks and halves, more against the clock than the distance. Same discipline as good infra: show up, keep the pace honest, let it compound. The roadrunner isn’t entirely a joke. Otherwise it’s the gym, and reading widely: Jacobin to Hacker News, Labatut to longtermism. German and English without thinking, a few more from years over the border in Denmark.