Niklas Sparfeld
Senior Backend Engineer at Pliant
Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNiklas Sparfeld is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and architecting cloud-native backends and embedded-integrated systems from Dortmund, Germany. He has progressed from bespoke software and embedded projects to leading backend and cloud architecture at grandcentrix, where he coached cross-functional teams and led libraries and infrastructure used across products. Known for rapid learning and deepening expertise when needed, he combines pragmatic problem-solving with a positive leadership style and experience managing teams of a dozen engineers. Currently at Pliant, he focuses on delivering reliable, scalable systems and bridging backend, firmware, DevOps and QA concerns—a practical generalist who thrives on complex, system-level challenges.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatik at TU Dortmund University
German, English
Github Skills (74)
python10
typescript-definitions10
mqtt10
home-automation10
typescript10
iot10
dts10
raspberry-pi10
azure9
loopback9
asyncio9
internet-of-things9
signal-processing8
rtl-sdr8
terraform8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
niklas-sparfeld/homeassistant-niceflors
Mar 2023 - May 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
Kampfgnom/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:55 pushes in 10 months
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