Jakob Stoeck
Head Of Engineering at Grab
Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolJakob Stoeck is a seasoned technology leader with 16+ years of delivering high-availability, mission-critical software across enterprise and startup settings. He is currently Head of Engineering at Grab, directing a distributed team of roughly 100 engineers across Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia to empower merchants with data-driven insights and scalable tools. His prior roles span Senior Software Engineering Manager at Grab, Director of Technology at SPORT1 GmbH, and co-founder/CTO of Pokermania, along with extensive freelance IT consulting for innovative platforms. He combines hands-on engineering in Java, JavaScript/NodeJS, PHP, Python, Shell, and SQL with cloud and on-premises architectures on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, plus self-hosted solutions, while leading international teams and cross-language collaboration. Based in Hesse, Germany, he holds an MSc and a BSc in Information Systems from Technische Universität München and has lived and worked in multiple countries, bringing multilingual, cross-cultural leadership to complex tech programs; a notable achievement includes growing a white-label multiplayer poker platform to 350k active users.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Technische Universität München
German, Italian, English, French
Stackoverflow
624reputation
78kreached
13answers
5questions
Github Skills (174)
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react10
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continuous-delivery9
django9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jakob-stoeck/jakobstoeck.de
May 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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