Niklas Henrich
CTO at Playbook®
Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNiklas Henrich is a technology leader and CTO with a decade of experience building engineering organizations, product strategy, and secure developer tooling. He scaled LeanIX’s engineering from single-page apps to a microservice-first platform, instituting autonomous teams and CI/CD practices that enabled daily releases and rapid customer growth. As CTO and former product lead at Code Intelligence, he combined product management with AI-driven security testing to help dev teams ship safer software faster. His background includes systems and software architecture for automotive driver-assistance at ZF and a summa cum laude PhD in computer science focused on real-time rendering, bridging rigorous research with practical, production-grade systems. Now based in Bonn, he’s known for hiring top talent, operationalizing fast delivery, and applying academic depth to real-world product problems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat., Informatik, Dr. rer. nat., Informatik at University of Koblenz and Landau
Github Skills (19)
kotlin10
jvm10
push-notifications10
java10
security10
clojure10
fuzzing10
fuzzer10
testing9
unit-test9
cicd8
cli5
spring-boot5
cmake4
spring4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
HenrichN/trackexplorer
Oct 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
CodeIntelligenceTesting/spring-boot-example
Jun 2023 - Dec 2023
A Spring Boot demo application
Contributions:11 PRs, 16 pushes, 10 branches in 5 months
springspring-boot
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