Niels Andriesse
Co-Founder & Co-CTO at Supermoon
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNiels Andriesse is a hands-on founder and engineering leader with a decade of experience building privacy-first mobile apps and AI tooling, currently co-leading Supermoon as Co-CTO after co-founding and exiting Superluminal (Pioneer W22/23). He shipped core iOS and Android clients and helped scale Session from launch to hundreds of thousands of users while owning product, security and team leadership for a privacy-focused messenger. Niels has deep mobile expertise (Android/iOS) evidenced by long-term contributions to Session’s Android app and earlier success with Archimedes, a physics-aware graphing calculator that reached hundreds of thousands of users. His background in aerospace engineering and an entrepreneurship minor inform a systems-oriented, physics-minded approach to building reliable software and AI agents that autonomously write and debug Python for data analysis. Known for bridging product, security and low-level engineering, he thrives on turning complex, auditable requirements into shipped, user-facing systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Minor, Entrepreneurship, Erasmus Minor, Entrepreneurship at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree, Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English, German, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
android-sdk10
kotlin9
javas8
net8
network8
java8
networking8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
oxen-io/session-android
May 2019 - Aug 2021
Session Android - Onion routing based messenger [DEPRECATED SEE README]
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:96 releases, 47 reviews, 1943 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Niels was primarily involved in developing and modifying the Android application for the Signal messenger, specifically focusing on closed group features. Their contributions included the creation of group chat functionalities, improvements to user interactions, handling various data, and working on notification aspects. The user's commits demonstrate familiarity with Android SDK, including its UI components, background tasks, and system-level interactions.
android
oxen-io/session-ios-pods
May 2019 - Nov 2020
Pods dependency tracker for Session
Contributions:203 commits, 18 PRs, 190 pushes in 1 year 6 months
dependency-trackerpodstracker
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