👋 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, automated, and hard to knock over. Self-taught, I came up through IT breaking things until they made sense. What’s always grabbed me is where security meets infrastructure, and lately the guardrails that decide whether a company can let AI near its systems without ending up in the news. When I’m bored, I co-found things (currently baba).

What I do

Build and secure infrastructure: cloud (mostly AWS), CI/CD, networks, identity. The plumbing nobody notices until it leaks. I’ve been described as pragmatic with a desire to do everything properly. Broad exposure to bare metal and cloud infrastructure, various operating systems, networking and code. I really like automation and learning by doing.

What I care about

Simplicity and pragmatism at the core, because complexity breeds problems. Cost and reliability as craft, not afterthoughts. Sharp tools over sprawl. Self-hosting where it makes sense, renting the cloud for the rest, and never pretending DIY comes free, while acknowledging there’s a premium on leasing servers. Looking at the total cost of ownership and doing things properly, without making a religion of it.

Off the clock

I run, often fast instead of far: 10Ks and halves, always against the clock instead of the distance. Otherwise I’m in the gym, or reading widely: Jacobin to Hacker News, Labatut to longtermism.