Nicolas Inden
Senior Consultant at INNOQ
Eschweiler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Inden is a Senior Consultant at INNOQ with 14 years in IT, blending product management, Product Owner duties, and hands-on development to help organizations adopt agile practices and ship resilient web applications. He specializes in privacy-conscious integration of AI into products, advising on self-hosted LLMs (vLLM, Ollama), RAG/MCP/agent architectures, and edge deployments while weighing them against frontier models. Nicolas also guides teams toward digital sovereignty—selecting hyperscaler-free stacks and operational models that prioritize long-term independence and sustainability. Technically fluent in Java, TypeScript, and Python, he translates complex requirements into actionable backlogs and serves as a pragmatic bridge between stakeholders and engineering teams. His background includes product leadership for large-scale network management and WLAN devices at LANCOM, giving him uncommon experience at the intersection of embedded/network products and cloud-native services. Based in North Rhine-Westphalia with an MSc in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen, he combines academic rigor with pragmatic, security- and privacy-focused engineering.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, RWTH Aachen, Computer Science, Master of Science, RWTH Aachen, Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
Github Skills (22)
ipfs8
control-center8
flask7
http-service6
photovoltaic5
trigger5
transparency5
falcon5
laravel5
sustainability5
python5
ios4
microservices4
graphql4
nextcloud4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
smashnet/smashblog
Jun 2020 - Mar 2026
Contributions:19 pushes in 5 years 9 months
smashnet/solar-wallbox
Sep 2020 - Jun 2022
Plugin-based control center to view photovoltaic status and trigger wallboxes
Contributions:72 commits, 6 PRs, 69 pushes in 1 year 8 months
centerphotovoltaictriggerstatuscontrol-center
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