Nik Appelmann
Geschäftsführer at IMPADY
Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNik Appelmann is a founder and managing director with eight years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, full-stack solutions with a strong focus on AWS architecture, cost optimization and scalable infrastructure. He runs Black Bridge GmbH while serving as CTO at IMPADY and Lead Cloud Engineer at DGG, blending strategic leadership with day-to-day delivery of DevOps pipelines, serverless and containerized systems. His background spans performance optimization (90+ Core Web Vitals for Next.js), CI/CD automation with Pulumi/GitLab, and end-to-end MVP delivery for both nonprofits and SaaS products. Based in Darmstadt, he combines engineering depth—from C++ performance profiling in academia to modern TypeScript/React stacks—with a knack for finding the highest-impact improvements in architecture and cloud spend.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
German, English
Github Skills (84)
hybrid10
javascript10
browser10
tld10
api10
compiler10
static-site-generator10
typescript10
ssg10
vercel10
nextjs10
react10
react-framework9
storybook9
server-rendering9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
n1kio/tohuwabohu
Apr 2020 - May 2022
Der Organisator für Online Gruppentreffen.
Contributions:13 PRs, 37 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
reactmeteorderstyled-componentstypescript
n1kio/university-domains-list
May 2020 - Feb 2021
University Domains and Names Data List & API
Contributions:7 pushes in 9 months
apitlddomains
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