Niklas Wenzel

Berlin, Germany

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Niklas Wenzel is a Berlin-based founder and software engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building products, coaching founders, and monetizing audience data for B2B media. He combines full-stack engineering chops—evident from Android and front-end contributions to projects like Catroid and ShowcaseView—with a founder’s product sensibility, having launched startups that reached paying customers and iterated rapidly on MVPs. Currently leading Megahit and writing at Audience Doctor, he helps publishers turn newsletter and audience insights into revenue. He also coaches early-stage founders to save time and overcome technical roadblocks, a role informed by prior work fixing high-impact bugs others couldn’t resolve. An active open-source contributor and Electron maintainer, he blends pragmatic engineering with data-driven commercial strategy.

13 years of coding experience

10 years of employment as a software developer

Abitur, Abitur at Franziskanergymnasium Kreuzburg Großkrotzenburg

Technischen Universität Darmstadt

English, German

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Programming languages (18)

MDXJavaC++CSSCGoKotlinTypeScript

Github contributions (5)

Catrobat/Catroid

Feb 2013 - Aug 2013

Writing programs on an Android device without prior knowledge.

Role in this project:

Mobile Developer (Android)

Contributions:10 commits in 6 months

Contributions summary:Niklas contributed significantly to the Catroid project, focusing on implementing sprite copying functionality within the Android application. This involved modifications to the `SpritesListFragment`, `Sprite`, `CostumeData`, and other related classes to enable the duplication of sprites, including their costumes, sounds, and associated scripts. The user also addressed naming conflicts during the copying process and added an action mode for multi-sprite selection, improving the user experience.

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amlcurran/ShowcaseView

Sep 2013 - Oct 2013

[Archived] Highlight the best bits of your app to users quickly, simply, and cool...ly

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:14 commits in 1 month

Contributions summary:Niklas primarily contributed to enhancing the user interface and experience of the showcase view library. They fixed layout issues for multi-line titles, added up navigation in sample activities, and implemented the `ConfigOptions` feature for more advanced customization. They also improved the library's functionality by incorporating features such as animated gestures. Several commits involve changes to the library's core files, improving how showcases are displayed and interacted with.

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