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Ilse Jacobs

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CTO at Zephyr Health · VS Code extensions, TypeScript

Works at
Zephyr Health
Location
Amsterdam, Netherlands · CET (UTC+1)
Experience
14+ years experience
Education
École Polytechnique
Languages
English, Dutch
Hiring
Message Connect

Overview

I've spent 23 years on developer tools - first at Uber, now at Zephyr Health. Shipped 21 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback. Before that: Maersk and Volkswagen Group. Most at home with VS Code extensions and Rust. Gardening and composting evangelist.

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Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
compilersRustTypeScriptVS Code extensions
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Hiring a senior sre for the developer experience team - Amsterdam or remote

Role
Senior sre
Level
Senior
Type
Contract
Work mode
Remote
Compensation
$176k-$222k + equity
Team
Developer experience, 14 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with VS Code extensions Production experience with Rust Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp €89k-€125k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Amsterdam, Netherlands · remote OKcompilersrusttypescript
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Experience

  1. CTO
    Jul 2023 - Present
    Zephyr Health · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • Led the migration of 52 services to Rust.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 33 minutes to under 4.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2021 - Jul 2023
    Maersk · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • Led the migration of 57 services to VS Code extensions.
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 46% in two quarters.
  3. Software Engineer
    Apr 2018 - Mar 2021
    Volkswagen Group · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • Moved 65% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 494ms to 70ms.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Dec 2014 - Apr 2018
    Ericsson · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 645ms to 135ms.
  5. Software Engineer
    Sep 2012 - Dec 2014
    Uber · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • Wrote the compilers service that now handles 62 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. École Polytechnique
    Ingénieur, Computer Science
    1999 - 2003

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