Niko Will
Tech Lead at Upvest
Amtzell, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolNiko Will is a Tech Lead with 11 years of experience designing and building scalable, distributed systems with a focus on event sourcing, CQRS, and microservice/self-contained architectures. He currently leads engineering at Upvest and has deep hands-on expertise with Akka and Scala, plus prior roles delivering IoT backends, malware file-parsing systems, and cloud-native services. Comfortable across the stack, he’s worked with Java, C/C++, C#, Spring Boot, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Docker and Cloud Foundry, bringing pragmatic architecture to fast and big-data problems. His background spans consulting and product teams, giving him a strong blend of customer-facing design and internal engineering leadership. Notably, he pairs formal academic training (MSc in Informatik) and top grades with practical experience turning complex domain requirements into simple, reliable solutions. Based in Amtzell, Germany, he favors elegant, minimal designs that scale in production.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Angewandte Informatik, 1,4, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Angewandte Informatik, 1,4 at Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (88)
actor-framework10
beans10
cloud-native10
actor-model10
concurrency10
streaming10
reactive10
akka10
akka-streams10
high-performance10
concurrent10
jvm10
distributed-systems10
java10
message-driven10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
StephenKing/kamon-grafana-dashboard
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 day
kamongrafana-dashboardgrafanadashboard
n1ko-w1ll/akka-http
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 days
scalahttp-serverstreamingakka
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