Summary
Nicolas Forgerit is a Berlin-based software engineer and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building web applications and leading engineering teams. As Founder & CEO of hej.technology and former Lead Developer at idealo, he combines hands-on full-stack development with software architecture and performance optimization expertise. His background includes CTO and senior engineering roles across startups and corporate environments, delivering booking systems, scalable web platforms, and migration tooling dating back to a Google Summer of Code project. A voracious reader and daily exerciser, he brings curiosity-driven problem solving and practical product sense to technical leadership. Less obvious: he has hands-on experience translating legacy CMS data via XSLT and PHP, reflecting an ability to bridge old and new systems during complex transitions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Maths Computer Science, Maths Computer Science at Fernuni Hagen
Pre-Diplome Computer Science Physics Economics, Pre-Diplome Computer Science Physics Economics at Karlsruhe Instituted of Technology (KIT)
High School Misc., High School Misc. at Hannah-Arendt-Gymnasium Haßloch, Germany.
German, French, English