Nico Vogelaar is an engineering manager and cloud-native software leader with 12 years of experience building scalable systems across startups and enterprise environments, now based in Singapore. He combines hands-on expertise in Go, Python and Java with deep Google Cloud, Kubernetes and distributed systems know-how to deliver resilient, data-driven platforms. Nico has progressed from hands-on developer roles at eBay and LeaseWeb to leadership positions including Head of Engineering and current Engineering Manager at Flo Energy, consistently scaling teams and technical architecture. He brings practical experience with streaming (Kafka), databases (Postgres, Elasticsearch, MongoDB) and modern APIs (gRPC, GraphQL), and is comfortable navigating both infrastructure and product trade-offs. Known for mentoring engineers while still contributing code, he often bridges product, ops and architecture to turn ambiguous requirements into maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information and Communication
Technology, Bachelor of Information and Communication
Technology at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences
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