Niklas Fasching
Senior Software Engineer at MOIA
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNiklas Fasching is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building backend systems across ad tech, analytics, and mobility. He has held senior roles at MOIA and Planet and contributed to production-grade projects at Fit Analytics and Ströer, bridging product needs with robust engineering. An active open-source contributor, he improved Org mode support in Hugo—one of the most widely used static site generators—by modernizing parsers and enabling content inclusion via Hugo's filesystem. Trained in Human Factors and psychology, he brings a user-centered perspective to system design and automation, complemented by hands-on ops experience managing Windows domains and PowerShell automation.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Human Factors, Human Factors at Technische Universität BerlinBachelor's degree Psychology, Bachelor's degree Psychology at University of Groningen
English, German
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Github Skills (21)
content-management-system10
hugo10
go10
content-management10
static-site-generation10
rxjs9
parser9
parsing9
parse9
reactive-programming9
documentation8
blog-engine8
parse-platform6
angular6
flink-streaming6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gohugoio/hugo
Jun 2019 - Apr 2021
The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 17 PRs, 25 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Niklas primarily focused on improving the Org mode support within the Hugo static site generator. Their contributions included refactoring the Org mode front matter parsing to handle array notations, replacing the original Org mode parser (goorgeous) with a more up-to-date one (go-org), and updating the go-org dependency with various bug fixes and feature enhancements. The user also introduced the ability to include files using `#+INCLUDE:` directives, integrating the Hugo filesystem for content directory access.
cmshugoblog-enginedocumentation-toolfastest
niklasfasching/hugo
Dec 2018 - Mar 2023
The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
Contributions:47 pushes, 23 branches in 4 years 3 months
fasteststatic-site-generator
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