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Hi, I'm Jacques

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Experience

  • Founder of TicketBee

    2025 - present

    Founded, and am currently running TicketBee - the platform for event ticketing.

    • Go-to-market strategy
    • Full-stack, complex fault-tolerant system
    • Self healing, high-availability (incl. replicated databases on k8s)
    • Built using modern but proven technologies
  • Software Engineer, Yellow

    June 2024 - present

    Part time work, while I'm pursuing my degree.

    • Built & now maintain the payment portal
    • Built & now maintain the android app and customer tracking infrastructure (ingest, data lake)
    • Exploring generative AI & AI video processing applications in credit
  • Operational Excellence Intern at Wemolo

    June 2025 - 1 month

    In-person internship at a München-based startup.

    • Data Engineering: ETL pipeline, parallel processing (decompression, transformation)
    • Web Development: home-grown Google Photos replacement, OAuth2, SvelteKit
    • Cloud: GCP, AWS

    Was asked to continue with a paid position at Wemolo

  • Plentify Internship

    June 2024 - 1 month

    Developed advanced models for improving geyser energy efficiency and water usage: an unsupervised model for standing heat loss assessment with high-noise tolerance, a water flow analysis model for personalized usage recommendations, and an inlet water temperature prediction model for precise heating control. Additionally, implemented AWS Lambda monitoring systems to enhance cloud reliability.

    Was asked to continue with a paid position at Plentify

  • Yellow Internship

    Jan 2023 - 1 month

    Designed, implemented, and deployed a translation grading tool via AWS Fargate to enhance machine translations between English and African languages, accelerating human translation efforts and improving agent communication. Enhanced a customer app by adding a payment history view and reimplementing the login and signup flow using Flutter.

    Was asked to continue with a paid position at Yellow

  • Robotics Tutor at Club Electron

    2022 - 1 year

    Teaching primary & secondary school children coding & robotics.

  • Junior Software Engineer for Dash Waste

    Feb 2020 - 4 months

    Security analysis and improvement. Drawing together a consistent user experience by designing and implementing a functional user interface in VueJS.