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).

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.

What I care about

Cost and reliability are craft, not line items. A few sharp tools over sprawl. Self-host where it pays, rent the cloud for the rest, and don’t pretend DIY comes free. At home I run my own, 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.