Niek Sanders
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolNiek Sanders is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and modernizing high-throughput, cloud-native systems, currently at Stripe and based in Bavaria, Germany. He has a strong track record at TUNE and Cape Analytics leading large-scale migrations, cost-saving data projects, and rewrites—moving monoliths to Go services, building systems handling tens of thousands of requests per second, and implementing DynamoDB and AWS-based architectures. Comfortable across Go, Rust, Python and C/C++, he pairs hands-on implementation with strategic technical leadership earned as a former CTO and VP of Engineering who scaled teams from a dozen to nearly eighty engineers. His background in GPU-accelerated machine learning and ray-tracing research gives him an uncommon mix of low-level performance tuning and cloud systems design. Pragmatic and results-driven, he focuses on turning messy legacy stacks into maintainable, high-performance platforms that deliver measurable operational and cost improvements.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (93)
gpu10
rust10
exceptions10
asynchronous10
inference10
matlab9
golang9
python-web9
compiler9
image-processing9
programming-language9
python9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nieksand/pman
Aug 2017 - Feb 2022
Niek's Password Vault
Contributions:42 commits, 12 PRs, 34 pushes in 4 years 7 months
password-vaultclipassword-managerpython3
nieksand/rust
Jan 2015 - Oct 2018
a safe, concurrent, practical language
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
concurrent-safedependent-typesconcurrencyrustlanguage-design
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