Laust Rud Jacobsen

Current

• Independent Rails developer (Self-employed)

Past

• Senior Specialist at IT-Practice A/S
• Solution Designer at Bang & Olufsen A/S

Education

• Aarhus Universitet
• Aarhus School of Business

Recommended

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Connections

63 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Freelance profile
• Master's Thesis (1.1 MiB PDF)

Laust Rud Jacobsen’s Summary

I will describe myself as serious, thorough, helpful, rich in ideas, and concrete. I approach work in a practical manner which means I get the job done without compromising quality. Usually I can provide a fresh perspective when people are stuck with a problem. Tasks begun are also finished, and I am constantly exploring new problems, tools, and methods.

Complex solutions are discussed with colleagues, and I can safely say I am a problem solver by nature. The fact that I will actually sit down and read manuals, together with an experimental nature means that problems become much easier to see through problems and solve them. I have no illusions of being infallible, but take pains to learn from my mistakes, and make new ones instead.

Currently focusing on Test Driven Ruby on Rails development projects, as the productivity gains are staggering.

Laust Rud Jacobsen’s Specialties:

• Experienced at creating solutions alone and in teams
• Versatile development experience — currently focusing primarily on Ruby-programming
• Fulltime Test Driven Developer

Laust Rud Jacobsen’s Experience

• Independent Rails developer

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  2001 — Present (8 years )

  I am currently working full time as an independent Ruby on Rails developer.
  
  Previously I have developed many smaller solutions for all sizes of businesses. Examples includes a backend for cph.dk for their new 360 virtual airport tour, and a small B2B service.

• Senior Specialist

  IT-Practice A/S

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2006 — May 2008 (2 years 1 month)

  Lead developer on a development project. Profiling and optimising Java code. Stress-performance testing of large systems. Low-level query tracing and optimisation for Oracle database. Wrote code-handbook and held three-day course on TDD in Java for developers. Wrote Ruby tools: a tool for quick analysis of lock-usage in Java coredumps, and another tool for distributed infrastructure surveillance.

• Solution Designer

  Bang & Olufsen A/S

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BO-B; Consumer Electronics industry)

  November 2004 — April 2006 (1 year 6 months)

  Member of the product theft-prevention team and developed infrastructure code for future products. Primary development resource at a number of vendor meetings both in Denmark and USA. Trivialised the automatic build and unit testing process for C# code.

Laust Rud Jacobsen’s Education

• Aarhus Universitet

  M.Sc. , Computer Science , 2000 — 2004

  My thesis was titled "A reuse repository with automated synonym support and cluster generation".

• Aarhus School of Business

  Datamatiker 1997 — 1999

  Activities and Societies:

  Cofounder of Smack, a net-gaming society

Additional Information

Laust Rud Jacobsen’s Websites:

• Freelance profile
• Master's Thesis (1.1 MiB PDF)

Laust Rud Jacobsen’s Interests:

Diving, reading, swimming

Laust Rud Jacobsen’s Groups:

•    Ruby on Rails
•    Aarhus University, Aarhus Universitet, Århus
•    Club ex-B&O
•    Datalogforeningen

Laust Rud Jacobsen’s Contact Settings

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