Jacob Tjørnholm
Backend Developer And Partner at GoMore
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Tjørnholm is a seasoned backend developer and partner at GoMore with 16 years of experience building reliable server-side systems in Clojure and Ruby. He has led the development of most backend services at GoMore, operating Clojure and Rails on AWS with PostgreSQL and ElasticSearch, and brings deep familiarity with long-lived production systems. His background spans C++, Java, Python, C#, and Scala, reflecting a strong foundation in systems, security-focused cryptography early in his career, and performance-sensitive engineering. Active in the local tech community, he co-organized the Aarhus Ruby meetup for nearly a decade and recently co-founded a Clojure group, showing a habit of cultivating developer ecosystems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, hands-on delivery, and mentoring across polyglot stacks.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Matematisk student, Mathematics, Matematisk student, Mathematics at Silkeborg GymnasiumAP Graduate in Computer Science, Computer Science, AP Graduate in Computer Science, Computer Science at Aarhus Business College
Danish, English, French
Github Skills (58)
html10
ruby9
mvc9
rails9
activerecord8
ssh8
ruby-on-rails8
sinatra8
git-repo8
devops8
file-upload7
ofx7
parser6
ruby-rails6
testing6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chopmo/retry-game
Jul 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:10 PRs, 3 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years
chopmo/puzzlenode-solutions
Nov 2011 - Apr 2012
Contributions:173 commits in 4 months
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