Nicolas Grenié
Investor at HackBarna
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Grenié is an investor and developer advocate with 12 years of experience turning complex APIs into thriving ecosystems and growing developer platforms. He scaled Typeform’s app ecosystem to 10,000+ integrations, shipped strategic integrations and Sales Engineering playbooks, and has spoken widely at conferences worldwide. A community builder and organizer, he founded HackBarna—an AI-focused hackathon that attracted hundreds of hackers—and helped launch apis.json, an open API discovery standard. He builds viral AI side projects (Bnbicons reached #2 on Product Hunt) and blends hands-on engineering with partnerships, technical writing, and public speaking. Based between Barcelona and San Francisco, he now invests in pre-seed operator-led startups while staying active at the intersection of AI and developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Science, Engineer's degree Computer Science at UTBMComputer Science, Computer Science at St. Olaf CollegeMiddle-School, Middle-School at International French School of Beijing
English, French, Chinese, Spanish, Russian
Stackoverflow
6,401reputation
957kreached
75answers
9questions
amazon-web-services
top-1%
aws-lambda
top-1%
Github Skills (200)
azure-functions10
serverless10
type-library10
api10
sdk10
ai10
typeform10
lambda10
serverless-architectures10
cloud-services10
cli10
aws-lambda10
google-cloud-functions10
json-api10
access-token10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
3scale-archive/awsThreeScale_Authorizer
Apr 2016 - Aug 2017
Custom Authorizer function for the AWS API gateway using 3scale for API management
Contributions:30 commits, 8 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 4 months
3scaleapi-managementaws-apigatewayapiserverless
picsoung/hackbcn
Apr 2024 - Jun 2026
HackBCN website
Contributions:4 PRs, 111 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 2 months
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