Nico Hänggi
Co-Founder at Casey (YC F25)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNico Hänggi is a backend-focused software engineer and founder with 10 years of experience building scalable web platforms and developer-facing infrastructure. Currently co-founding Casey (YC F25) to modernize insurance distribution, he previously drove backend and full-stack engineering at grape insurance and built production-grade services at startups like Kickmoji and Caplena. His background spans reverse engineering and program verification as well as practical backend systems—an unusual mix that helps him design robust, auditable services. He also led a design-and-build studio (beyond corporation) where he shipped a visual CMS using NestJS and PostgreSQL, showing both product sensitivity and hands-on execution. Based in San Francisco with an MS in Computer Science from ETH Zürich, Nico combines startup grit with deep technical curiosity and operational experience.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Physics, Mathematics and Physics at Regionales Gymnasium Laufental-ThiersteinMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at ETH Zürich
German, English, French
Github Skills (37)
epub10
pdf10
kindle9
child-process8
nodejs7
cli6
apollo6
binaries6
nest5
nvm5
rest5
api5
npm5
javascript5
executable4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
caplena/caplena-python
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 115 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
python-libraryapipythonrestrest-api
nicohaenggi/SafariBooks-Downloader
Jan 2017 - Feb 2021
a SafariBooksOnline downloader that generates respective .epub books for offline and kindle reading
Contributions:25 commits, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 years 1 month
downloaderpdfsafaribooks-downloaderoreillykindle
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