Nick Spreen
Founder at Hockey Labs, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNick Spreen is a technical founder and software engineer with 11 years of experience building product-first startups and shipping production-grade systems from prototype to scale. He repeatedly turns weekend ideas into working demos and has led architecture and cloud efforts that cut hosting costs dramatically while improving performance (e.g., 95% cost reduction for a major illustration app). As a hands-on CTO and freelancer he spans cloud engineering, real-time media, iOS, and data-driven features across startups and enterprise engagements. He co-founded and scaled consumer social products, designed Kubernetes microservices for global video processing, and contributed to EU open-source vaccine passport iOS repos. Nick holds advanced CS degrees from TUM and research experience at Rutgers, and earned an O-1 visa as an independent freelancer—an uncommon recognition that underlines his sustained impact and high standards. Based in New York, he is selective about projects and focuses on work he is proud to attach his name to.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Informatik, Master of Science - MS Informatik at Technical University of MunichBachelor of Science - BS Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS Informatik at Technische Universität BraunschweigVisiting Researcher (Master's Thesis) Computer Science Bioinformatics, Visiting Researcher (Master's Thesis) Computer Science Bioinformatics at Rutgers University
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Github Skills (200)
threejs10
touchid10
metadata10
adonisjs10
svg10
visual-studio10
3d10
cpp10
react-native-camera10
scanner10
barcodes10
camera10
api10
karabiner10
viewcontroller10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
yspreen/nginx
Nov 2019 - Mar 2025
nginx docker alpine build, including mod zip.
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
nginxdocker-alpinedocker-imagemoddocker
bromberglab/bio-node-webclient
Oct 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:27 PRs, 238 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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