Nicolai Schmid
Cofounder at Maon
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolai Schmid is a pragmatic founder and engineering leader with 10 years of experience building cloud-native, AI-enabled products from prototype to market. As Head of Engineering at apex and cofounder of multiple startups, he combines hands-on architecture, team building, and operational know-how to ship innovation with measurable ROI. He’s rebuilt large components (e.g., a full Next.js/TypeScript redesign and migration off proprietary services) and productionized transformer-based NLP pipelines for context-aware search and conversational agents. Comfortable across the stack—from Kubernetes on bare metal and Pulumi deployments to embedded ML training infrastructure and frontend frameworks—he prioritizes self-directed teams and questioning requirements. His career arc includes quitting university multiple times and learning through hard mistakes, which fuels a practical, results-oriented coaching style. Based in Berlin, he quietly blends entrepreneurship with technical craft, recently applying his semantic search and graph-analysis experience to acquisition-target discovery in stealth projects.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Business Administration and Economics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Business Administration and Economics at Universität PotsdamA-Levels, Natural Sciences in modern society (Mathematics, Economics, Politcs, Pyhsics, Computer Science), A-Levels, Natural Sciences in modern society (Mathematics, Economics, Politcs, Pyhsics, Computer Science) at Leibniz-Gymnasium Bad SchwartauBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Economics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Economics at Fachhochschule Nordakademie ElmshornBachelor of Science & Arts, Computer Science, Policts and Economy, Bachelor of Science & Arts, Computer Science, Policts and Economy at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
French, Japanese, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
sentence10
sentence-embeddings10
roberta10
newsletter10
vmware10
sentence-similarity10
tesla10
deno10
feature-flags10
srtm10
kubernetes10
storage10
electra10
word-embeddings10
postgresql10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
NicolaiSchmid/tr064
May 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:39 commits, 7 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 3 months
NicolaiSchmid/helm-docker
Sep 2017 - Jul 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 11 months
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