Niko Köser
Staff Software Engineer at Capstone Metering, LLC
Wipperfürth, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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RockstarNiko Köser is a Staff Software Engineer based in Wipperfürth, Germany, with eight years of hands-on experience building reliable back-end systems. At Capstone Metering he progressed from Back End Developer to Staff Engineer, driving architecture and implementation for metering solutions. A pragmatic refactorer and dependency-minded coder, he contributes to open-source Go tooling—most notably improving nikoksr/notify by cleaning code, managing go.mod, and adding Microsoft Teams support and Discord fixes. Curiosity fuels his work, leading him to tackle integration pain points and improve maintainability rather than only adding features. He combines production-focused engineering with a knack for making cross-service notification plumbing simpler and more robust.
8 years of coding experience
German, English
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Github Skills (14)
golang10
go10
notification10
messaging10
microsoft-teams9
discord8
discord-js8
git6
type-conversion6
visual-studio-code6
floating-point6
golang-migrate6
winapi6
github6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nikoksr/notify
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
A dead simple Go library for sending notifications to various messaging services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 releases, 114 reviews, 345 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Niko primarily focused on refactoring and cleaning up existing code, including adding comments and improving code readability within the mail and telegram services. They addressed dependency management by tidying the go.mod file. Furthermore, the user introduced support for the Microsoft Teams service. The user fixed a Discord client issue by adding a gateway intent to the Discord client.
gogolangmessagingtelegramemail
nikoksr/web-monkey
Aug 2018 - Mar 2020
Small webcrawler created with the imagination of monkeys jumping from tree to tree.
Contributions:91 commits, 4 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 6 months
web-crawler
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