Niko E
Tech & Team Lead Senior Fullstack Developer at JobLeads
Marburg, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNiko E is a Tech & Team Lead and senior full-stack developer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and shipping web applications from startup to scale. Based in Marburg, Germany, he blends leadership and deep technical craft—recently stepping into a Tech & Team Lead role after a multi-year senior engineering tenure. His background includes co-founding a development firm and a decade of freelance work, giving him a strong product-oriented mindset and pragmatic approach to delivery. An active systems-level coder, he has contributed to the cmus open-source music player by improving its JACK audio plugin (24-bit support, buffer safety, channel tracking), showing attention to low-level reliability as well as higher-level full-stack concerns. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs clean engineering with team coaching to turn ambiguous requirements into robust, maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
3. Gymnasium Alimos, AthensHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at EPL Alimou, Athens3. Primary School Alimos, Athensnone, Computer Science, none, Computer Science at The Philipp University of Marburg
Greek, English, German
Github Skills (2)
c1710
c1110
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cmus/cmus
Mar 2014 - Oct 2021
Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 36 commits, 26 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Niko implemented and refined the JACK output plugin for the cmus music player. They added support for 24-bit audio files, fixed buffer overflow issues, and improved channel position tracking. Further, they made several improvements including error handling and cleaner cleanup procedures within the plugin's structure. The user also improved code formatting and the renaming of the conversion quality option.
unixoperating-systemsconsolemidilinux
nefthy/cmus
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
unixoperating-systemsconsolemidilinux
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