Tiago Jacobs is a hands-on technology leader and CEO with 13+ years building high-performance software, real-time systems, and ops automation from Santa Catarina, Brazil. He combines production engineering training with deep full-stack and DevOps experience—contributing to notable open-source projects like BigBlueButton by improving client-side UX, server-side robustness, and Docker-based deployment pipelines. As founder and IT consultant at iMDT and GetNet Tecnologia, he excels at translating user needs into reliable, scalable systems through math-driven engineering and continuous integration practices. Known for pragmatic sysadmin skills and a collaborative approach, he turns complex requirements into practical, running solutions while keeping an eye on deployment and infrastructure resilience.
14 years of coding experience
Engineer's degree, Production Engineering, 10, Engineer's degree, Production Engineering, 10 at Universidade Feevale
Data Processing High School, Data Processing, Data Processing High School, Data Processing at Instituição Evangélica de Novo Hamburgo - IENH
A complete web conferencing system for virtual classes and more!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:120 reviews, 52 commits, 218 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tiago primarily contributed to the BigBlueButton client-side codebase, fixing layout-related issues, presentation slide conversion timeouts, and improving the application's user interface. They also worked on server-side code, refactoring connection definitions and sanitizing parameters. Additionally, the user made changes to the build and deployment infrastructure, specifically the installation and service scripts.
Docker files for BigBlueButton (community maintained)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:18 commits, 10 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tiago primarily focused on configuring and improving the Docker setup for BigBlueButton. Their contributions include modifying the `setup.sh` script to include a default password, remounting the /tmp directory, and updating the user's UID. They also addressed fixes related to the BigBlueButton 2.2 Docker image. This work suggests a focus on infrastructure and deployment automation for the project.
bigbluebuttondockerfile
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