Nico Carl
Staff Software Engineer at Snyk
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNico Carl is a Staff Software Engineer based in Munich with nine years of experience bridging research-grade problem solving and production software at Snyk, where he has progressed from software engineer to senior and now staff roles. He brings a PhD-level scientific rigor from physical chemistry and polymer science to backend and DevOps work, evidenced by contributions to the popular faker Python project—adding type annotations, modernizing CI/CD, and improving code quality at scale. As a former co-founder and consultant, he combines product-minded engineering with hands-on implementation, particularly in improving maintainability and automation. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical leadership across the full spectrum of senior IC responsibilities and for quietly modernizing legacy workflows.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Physical Chemistry, PhD Physical Chemistry at Paderborn UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Polymer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Polymer Science at University of Bayreuth
English, French, German
Github Skills (11)
formatting10
type-annotations10
formatter10
test-data10
black-formatter10
faker10
python10
cicd10
test-generator10
code-formatting10
testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
joke2k/faker
Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nico primarily contributed to improving the code quality and maintainability of the project by adding type annotations. They also focused on updating the CI/CD pipeline by removing deprecated Python versions and adding support for newer ones. Further contributions involved formatting the entire codebase using Black, updating coding style documentation, and integrating linting tools. Additional work includes adding a French SSN provider and updating French phone number area code generation.
pythontest-datatestingdummy-datadataset
nicarl/pizzacalc
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Creates amazing recipes for pizza dough
Contributions:61 reviews, 682 commits, 540 PRs in 2 years 1 month
recipesdoughpizza-doughpizzaamazing
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