Nico Domino
Product Engineer at Plain
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNico Domino is a Product Engineer based in Berlin with 8 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and developer tooling. He combines front-end TypeScript expertise with backend systems work—shipping features, fixing TypeScript and PostgreSQL issues, and improving deployment/domain configurations across notable open-source projects like next-auth and js.org. At Checkly he helped scale a small cross-functional team, built data pipelines and new check types, and maintained patches to Playwright for advanced test control. He also led work on GitButler (Tauri/Rust/Svelte) and contributed backend enhancements to projects like a COVID-19 API and NetBox, showing comfort across languages and infra. Known for “CEO of HTML” humor on GitHub, he brings a pragmatic, ops-aware developer mindset formed from earlier sysadmin roots.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. B.A. Information Systems Management, B.S. B.A. Information Systems Management at Duquesne UniversityHigh School General, High School General at Mt. Lebanon High School
German, English
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Github Skills (50)
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python10
nix10
apidoc10
django10
databases10
typescript10
nextjs10
dc10
tauri10
database-administration10
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
gitbutlerapp/gitbutler
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
The GitButler version control client, backed by Git, powered by Tauri/Rust/Svelte
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 257 reviews, 660 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nico focused on front-end and back-end development. Their work primarily involved setting up the development environment using Nix and updating front-end dependencies with npm, while also making changes to the tauri app. They integrated with multiple web tools. Their commits demonstrate expertise in front-end, build tools, and back-end configuration.
tauri
nextauthjs/next-auth-typescript-example
Jun 2021 - Mar 2022
An example project that shows how to use NextAuth with TypeScript
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Nico primarily focused on migrating the example project to a newer version of NextAuth and fixing build errors. Their work involved updating core dependencies, including a refactor of provider imports and JWT strategy option. They also made changes to the frontend components, specifically the app, header, server, and protected pages, as well as changes to the backend auth routes.
reactnextauthverceltypescriptnextjs
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