Nicolas Höning
Co-Founder at SEITA - Open software for energy flexibility
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNicolas Höning is a PhD-trained software engineer and co-founder with over 15 years of professional experience building production-grade systems that bridge research and product in the energy sector. He leads SEITA’s open-source energy management platform, FlexMeasures, combining digital-twin ROI analysis with real-time control to commercialize flexible asset scheduling for batteries and heat storage. Technically hands-on as a software architect and back-end developer, he has implemented resilient cloud architectures and contributed CLI and testing improvements to widely used Python tooling like Invoke. His background spans academia (CWI PhD research on energy markets) to industry roles automating monetization of flexibility and building large-scale recommendation and B2B systems. Nicolas blends product strategy and value-proposition research with developer-first open-source stewardship, forming strategic partnerships and speaking on energy+open-source synergies. Based in Amsterdam, he focuses on enabling energy service companies worldwide to offer flexibility-as-a-service that saves costs and CO₂.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA business informatics, BA business informatics at Leibniz Akademie HannoverMaster Of Science Artificial Intelligence, Master Of Science Artificial Intelligence at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Delft University of TechnologyBachelor Of Science Cognitive Sciences, Bachelor Of Science Cognitive Sciences at Universität Osnabrück
German, English, Dutch
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Github Skills (12)
command-line10
command-line-interface10
develop10
python10
cli10
testing10
documentation9
automation9
automations9
bash8
script8
zsh8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pyinvoke/invoke
Nov 2016 - Jun 2017
Pythonic task management & command execution.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to improving the command-line interface of the `invoke` library. Their work involved enhancing the tab completion functionality, including adding support for custom binary names and printing completion scripts for various shells like bash, zsh, and fish. They also refined the program's documentation and addressed code style issues to improve the overall quality and usability of the library. Additionally, the user improved testing scripts related to these features.
command-execution
FlexMeasures/flexmeasures-plugin-template
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
CookieCutter template for creating a new FlexMeasures plugin
Contributions:5 reviews, 20 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 3 months
cookiecutter
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