Niels Filter
Staff Engineer at Traild
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolNiels Filter is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native B2B services from South Africa’s Western Cape. He blends hands-on architecture and full-stack delivery with people-first leadership, having led global teams, driven SRE and cost-optimization efforts, and mentored engineers into high-performance units. As founder of Filteredcode and Director at Grow Strong, he pairs technical consulting—incorporating Generative AI into practical workflows—with a deep commitment to mentoring disadvantaged youth. Comfortable across the stack and lifecycle, he has designed resilient systems that scaled from thousands to nearly a billion API requests and brings a creative, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Business Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Business Information Technology at University of Greenwich
English, Afrikaans, German
Stackoverflow
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visual-studio
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partial-views
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Github Skills (39)
visual-studio9
partial-views9
amazon8
google-cloud-platform7
oracle-cloud7
amazon-web-services7
azure7
logging6
wpf6
telemetry6
google6
asp-net6
entity-framework6
sdk6
aws6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NielsFilter/TicTacToe.Net
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:22 commits, 73 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
NielsFilter/DeployOptions
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 146 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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