An architect.
Still an engineer.

I'm Nicolas, a Staff Software Engineer based in Wedel, Germany. My work combines solution architecture, cross-team technical leadership and hands-on engineering.

Across corporate roles and independent projects, I've worked on API design, distributed systems, performance and reliability. I'm particularly interested in the relationship between a system's design and the teams that build and operate it.

A technical foundation

I hold a master's degree in Applied Computer Science from HTW Berlin. My master's thesis explored virtualising MQTT-based IoT sensors at the edge; my bachelor's thesis focused on an HTML5 online game using cloud technologies and messaging.

Away from work

My interests include smart homes and IoT, fantasy and science fiction, table football, Escrima and scuba diving.