Niels Hoffmann
Interim CTO at Zentralmaschine
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNiels Hoffmann is an experienced software engineer and interim CTO based in Berlin with over a decade of hands-on experience building consumer products, teams, and architectures. He co-founded ASK HELMUT and led technical strategy and growth there, and has shipped award-winning consumer apps at YATATOY while also driving large-scale migrations and consolidation projects at Axel Springer using Go, TypeScript and cloud automation. Comfortable both as a maker and manager, he champions test-driven development, pair programming, CI/CD and data-driven feedback to create maintainable, high-quality systems. Known for turning legacy monoliths into scalable microservices and unifying fragmented platforms, he balances strategic leadership with daily coding and code review. He values openness and mentoring, and brings a rare mix of product sensibility, operational experience, and playful creativity from his background building digital toys.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at FH Brandenburg
English, French, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (82)
sublime-text9
sublime8
sublimelinter8
ruby-on-rails7
sidekiq7
sidekiq-cron7
cron7
emberjs6
js-api6
jquery6
ruby6
hash6
decorators6
yaml6
scheduler6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
askhelmut/obecon-client
Jun 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 9 months
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spring-media/la-shared-github-workflows
Jan 2022 - Jul 2023
Team LAs shared Github workflows that collect common workflow functionality to be reused in projects.
Contributions:10 releases, 49 reviews, 34 PRs in 1 year 6 months
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