Jürgen Nicklisch-franken
CEO And Founder at Symbolian
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolJürgen Nicklisch-franken is a veteran functional programmer and entrepreneur with nearly four decades of programming experience and 19 years of professional engineering leadership. As CEO and founder of Symbolian in Berlin, he is spearheading the design of a novel CPU based on combinatory reduction logic aimed at making IT more sustainable and accelerating digital transformation. His background spans safety-critical real-time systems, transport information systems, and enterprise knowledge technologies, reflecting deep expertise in dependable, distributed architectures. He has hands-on open-source experience contributing backend improvements to the Cardano node—streamlining fork-handling logic and enhancing metrics and tracing for production observability. Trained originally in philosophy, he brings a systems-level, conceptual approach to engineering that blends theoretical rigor with practical product delivery.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy, Philosophy at Freie Universität BerlinAbitur, Abitur at Ulrich von Hutten Gymnasium
English, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
haskell10
blockchain10
computer-engineering10
cardano10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
IntersectMBO/cardano-node
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
The core component that is used to participate in a Cardano decentralised blockchain.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:269 reviews, 263 commits, 53 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jürgen's commits primarily involve modifications to the Cardano node software. They focused on removing and adjusting parameters related to hard fork transitions. This includes the removal of the `HardForkNotBeforeEpoch` parameter, which streamlined the codebase and reduced potential debugging complexities. Further contributions involved enhancing EKG tracing and metrics collection, which provides valuable insights into the node's performance and health.
core-componentblockchainplutusdecentralisedcardano
leksah/billeksah
Jul 2011 - Apr 2012
Contributions:37 commits in 10 months
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