Summary
Nikolai Tschacher is a Berlin-based software engineer and company owner with 13 years of experience building secure, data-driven services using Python, Node.js and TypeScript. He combines hands-on development of serverless backends and databases with deep expertise in network and application security—particularly bot detection, TLS, proxies/VPNs and cryptography. His work spans research roles at Akamai and advisory duties at Germany’s BSI to running ipapi.is, where keeping large datasets accurate is the core operational challenge. Recently he applied TensorFlow to large-scale bot-detection problems and continues to publish technical insights on his blog and GitHub.
13 years of coding experience