Fabian Jakobs

Software Engineer

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands19 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led the development of popular ACE code editor.
  • Successfully launched AWS CloudShell at re:Invent 2020.
  • Built and scaled Cloud9 IDE from inception.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong capabilities in cloud services and developer tools.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipDocker ProductsAmazon Web Services (aws)Cloud ServicesCloud ArchitectureApplication SecurityWeb DevelopmentFull Stack DevelopmentOpen Source DevelopmentJavascript Frameworks

Other Skills

GitJavaScriptAgile MethodologiesDesign PatternsPythonCSSSoftware EngineeringHTMLLinuxRIAHTML 5Web ApplicationsOpen SourceFront-endSoftware Development

About

I'm a software engineer with 10+ years of experience in the area of developer tools and IDEs. I love building strong teams and mentoring people. I'm currently a Sr. Staff Engineer at Databricks and responsible for customer-facing developer tools such as IDEs, Infrastructure as Code, SDKs, and CLIs. As a tech lead, I helped set up the team from scratch, grow the team and set product and technical direction. Previously I was a Principal Engineer at AWS and my area of responsibility covered the AWS Cloud9, AWS CloudShell, and AWS Toolkits services and the engineering teams building and maintaining these services. I joined Amazon after Cloud9 was acquired by AWS. Before joining Amazon I was co-founder and Chief Architect of Cloud9 IDE and creator of the ACE code editor. I'm a DevOps generalist and TypeScript, node.js, and web technologies specialist. I have released products at Databricks and launched two AWS services and have strong experience in building secure, maintainable, and operationally excellent services in the Cloud. I started my career by pushing the boundaries of the web. Bringing new experiences and new types of applications to the web. At Cloud9 we are building a complete IDE running in the browser using nothing but JavaScript and HTML5. For a great IDE experience, the code editor is a very critical component. Therefore one of my first tasks for Cloud9 was to build an HTML-based code editor component that compares well with editors like Sublime Text or TextMate. The result was ACE which has become the most popular online code editor with more than 26000 "likes" on GitHub. While becoming more and more responsible for the Cloud9 backend I came to love the challenges of designing for scale.

Experience

19 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs
Current Experience

Databricks

Senior Staff Engineer

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

  • Tech lead in the Developer Ecosystem team at Databricks. Helped build the team from scratch. Responsible for customer-facing developer tools such as IDE support, SDKs, CLIs, and Infrastructure as Code.
Engineering LeadershipDocker Products

Amazon web services (aws)

2 roles

Principal Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2019 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Principal Engineer Developer Experience (AWS Cloud9) at Amazon Web Services. As a principal engineer I'm responsible for the AWS Cloud9, AWS CloudShell and AWS Toolkits services and the engineering teams supporting those services.
  • In 2020 my focus was on launching AWS CloudShell, which was a new AWS services launched at re:Invent 2020 and announced by Werner Vogles in his keynote.
Docker ProductsGitAmazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud Services

Sr. Software Developer

Jul 2016 – Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • As senior developer at AWS I helped turning the acquired c9.io online IDE into an AWS service. AWS Cloud9 was launched at re:Invent 2017 and announced by Werner Vogles in his keynote.
Docker ProductsGitAmazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud Services

Cloud9 ide

2 roles

Chief Architect

Promoted

Mar 2015 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • As chief architect I am responsible for the overall application architecture across the full stack of Cloud9. My main responsibility is to make sure that the platform remains secure, reliable and scalable as the Cloud9 user base grows.
  • Cloud9 runs on top of Google Compute Engine (GCE), where we use data centers in multiple regions to achieve low latency for the user and resilience to individual data center outages. Every service is redundant in multiple data centers and can be scaled horizontally to increase capacity.
  • Together with our CTO Lennart Kats I have implemented our docker based hosting backend for Cloud9 workspaces. Today we run application code of Cloud9 users in several 10.000 docker containers every day, achieving a great performance for our users and a high density of workspaces on our servers.
  • I'm leading a cross functional team of operations and software engineers, which monitors and runs Cloud9 in production and is constantly improving the security, reliability and scalability of the platform.
Docker ProductsGitCloud ArchitectureApplication Security

Lead Developer

Apr 2010 – Jul 2016 · 6 yrs 3 mos

  • Cloud9 IDE is a full featured IDE running completely in the browser. I was part of the development team from the beginning. I have worked on all ares of Cloud9 from frontend to the node.js backend. From integration with third partys like Github to a remote node.js debugger running in the browser. Scaling it from a simple server running on a single Linux box to a fully scalable farm of services running on Amazon Web Services.
  • My most prominent contribution to Cloud9 is certainly the ACE code editor, which has become the most popular open source online code editor with more than 24000 "likes" on GitHub.
  • Another area of work was the workspace hosting and sandboxing. First on Solaris then on Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS platform and finally on docker.
Docker ProductsGitWeb DevelopmentFull Stack Development

1&1 internet ag

Senior Software Developer

May 2006 – Mar 2010 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

  • 1&1 is one of the world's largest Internet provider with more than 11 million customer contracts. At 1&1 I worked full time on the open source framework qooxdoo.
  • Lead developer of the JavaScript framework qooxdoo
  • Designed and implemented the widget and layout system
  • JavaScript/qooxdoo consulting to improve the http://gmx.com web mail client performance
  • Designed a framework for widgets with virtual view ports
  • Worked on qooxdoo‘s Python based build system and JavaScript compiler
  • Community building
GitJavaScriptOpen Source DevelopmentJavaScript Frameworks

Cas software ag

Diploma Student

Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 · 0 mo · Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

GitJavaScript

Education

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Dipl. Inform. — Computer Science

Jan 1999 – Jan 2006

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