Niko Felger
Head Of Engineering - Technology at DigitalService
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNiko Felger is a product-minded Head of Engineering with 16 years of hands-on experience building and scaling web, API, and infrastructure products—from B2C platforms with 10M+ users to B2B SaaS for Fortune 500 clients. Based in Berlin, he leads Germany’s digital transformation at DigitalService, blending pragmatic, user-centered engineering with a focus on humane, trustworthy public services. He started as a computational linguist with MPhil work in Speech, Text and Internet Technologies, and his roots in NLP and AI inform a data-informed approach to product and architecture decisions. Equally comfortable coaching high-trust teams and digging into code, he has run engineering and executive roles including CTO and Managing Director at EyeQuant and product/engineering stints at Songkick. A ways-of-working pragmatist, he eschews cargo-cult practices in favor of lean, agile delivery that balances speed with reliability and public accountability.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MPhil Computer Speech Text and Internet Technologies, MPhil Computer Speech Text and Internet Technologies at University of CambridgeBachelor of Science Computational Linguistics, Bachelor of Science Computational Linguistics at Universität des Saarlandes
German, English, French
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Github Skills (81)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tech4germany/rechtsinfo_api
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
API für Rechtsinformationen des Bundes.
Contributions:138 commits, 2 PRs, 46 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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digitalservicebund/uptime-monitor
Apr 2022 - Apr 2026
📈 Uptime monitor and status page for DigitalService4Germany, powered by @upptime
Contributions:1 PR, 5221 pushes, 287 comments in 4 years
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