Niklas Higi
Co-Founder & Platform Lead
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNiklas Higi is a Berlin-based software engineer and serial founder with nine years of hands-on experience building developer tools and platform products. As Co-Founder and Platform Lead at Kombo he combines product leadership with low-level engineering, having previously served as CTO and led multiple startups through acquisition. He contributes to open source—improving GitHub UX in refined-github and maintaining apk-mitm, a practical CLI for preparing Android APKs for HTTPS inspection—showing comfort across front-end and security-sensitive tooling. Niklas blends pragmatic full-stack development with a focus on developer experience and app security, often fixing edge-case bugs and improving tooling compatibility. A CODE University software engineering graduate and YC S22 alum, he brings entrepreneurial resilience and an operator’s mindset to technical problems. Beyond titles, he’s the kind of engineer who ships small, reliable fixes that quietly unblock teams and products.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
YC S22, YC S22 at Y CombinatorBachelor of Science Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science Software Engineering at CODE University of Applied Sciences
German, English
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
browser-extension10
userstyle10
chrome-extension10
google-chrome-extension10
apk10
android10
reverse-engineering10
cli10
github9
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
html8
javas8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
niklashigi/apk-mitm
Oct 2019 - Apr 2022
🤖 A CLI application that automatically prepares Android APK files for HTTPS inspection
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:38 releases, 156 commits, 21 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Niklas primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of a CLI application designed to prepare Android APK files for HTTPS inspection. Their work involved implementing helper functions for interacting with external tools like Apktool and Uber APK Signer. They also addressed bugs and added features, such as enabling usage of custom Apktool versions, improving error handling, and enhancing compatibility with Android App Bundles. Furthermore, they implemented security patches and adjusted the project to use features like custom network security configurations.
android-apkcli-applicationclireverse-engineeringandroid
refined-github/refined-github
Jan 2018 - Nov 2018
:octocat: Browser extension that simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 12 PRs, 46 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Niklas primarily contributed to enhancing the user interface of the browser extension. They implemented new features, such as adding a "Toggle files" button and improving shortcut help functionality, and fixed issues. Furthermore, they modified existing features, like the "Copy file" feature, to ensure proper functionality. Their work involved changes in the `content.js`, `content.css`, and various feature-specific JavaScript files.
browser-extensionchrome-extensionuserstylefirefox-addonsafari-extension
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