Jakob is a staff computer scientist in the EP-SFT group. He is deputy coordinator of the EP R&D software work package. Jakob is the original author and project leader of the CernVM File System, a global software distribution service for the LHC experiments and other scientific collaborations, that has been built in the course of a previous EP R&D initiative from 2008 to 2011. Since 2018, Jakob also works in the ROOT team where he develops ROOT's designated future event data storage format. Before his current position, Jakob has been in the Wolfang Gentner PhD programme, he has been a Marie Curie fellow and a visiting scholar at Stanford University.