Jacob Baginski

I’m a software engineer working at the intersection of design & technology.

I’m currently living in Aarhus, Denmark with my girlfriend and two cats. We moved here from Wroclaw, Poland a couple of years back. In my spare time, I enjoy tinkering with software, like building side projects or random components that will never see the daylight. I love trying out new developer tools and Vim plugins. I’m big time into cooking as well. Currently, I’m fighting with sourdough bread baking.

I’m currently working as a software engineer at Whiteaway Group, building a large e-commerce solution along with internal tooling.

In addition to that, I’m always building something as a side gig. Currently, together with a dear friend of mine, we are building Ophelia, a design system and componenent library builder. The idea is to allow designers and developers to create and maintain design systems without writing any code. Designers would just import the design system into Figma, and developers would get an npm package to use in their projects.

I’m trying to collect and document my design engineering work.

You can see it here

I draw a lot of inspiration from tools like Vercel or Linear. I truly admire the craft and attention to detail of engineers and designers at those companies, especially @rauno and @emilkowalski.

I mainly work with frontend technologies, so naturally most of my work is done in Typescript. On top of that, I’m a big fan of Next.js which I use on a daily basis.

When it comes to other programming languages, I’ve had a chance to work with Go once, and I liked it a lot, especially the concurrency model.