Jacob

Jacob Kristensen

@turbulentarius

I am a Web Developer from Denmark with a diverse skill set and a passion for technology.

Currently, I am pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Web Development at Zealand, where I am honing my skills and diving deep into React.

Employment history

Fitness Engros

Febuary 2022 to Marts 2024 — Full Stack Developer

Fitness Engross was using an old version of Shopware that had various bugs and problems — all of which I solved — one of the most serious bugs prevented us from updating.

Overall I am very satisfied with my acomplishments in this position, and not least thankful that Fitness Engros entrusted me with their system.

When I was hired, I had no previous experience with Shopware, including some of the technologies Shopware is built with. This meant I had to learn things like Vue.js, twig, and how to setup Elasticsearch, with little assistence from other developers. In fact, I was even diving so deeply into Shopware's own code, that I managed to discover and file an issue that was causing massive use of disk space in our Shop.

I credit my former boss, Gitte Olrik, for getting me started with TailwindCSS, Vue.JS, and amusingly introducing me to the grep command. Her initial push has given me a solid foundation to build on, which proved valuable at Zealand.

Tech: Shopware, Vue.js, PHP, Composer, Twig, Tailwindcss, Nginx, Redis, MariaDB, Elasticsearch, Cron

BITD ApS / Virtuly ApS

~ 2021 to 2022 — Wordpress Developer

I worked with various ad-hoc Wordpress development tasks for their clients. Doing this time I became quite good at creating and working with Wordpress plugins, as well as custom Themes.

Of course I already had experience with PHP, but my familiarity with Wordpress was still limited to what I had learnt at KEA at this point.

I mostly did front-end work that involved HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, typically created as CMS editor components or simply injected via custom plugins and themes.

Wordpress was a bit tough to work with, because some of their clients had absolutely huge functions.php file, which involved a lot of scrolling up and down just to find things. This was before I knew about grep -r "something".

Tech: Wordpress, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS