Summary
Nils Petersen is a seasoned Software Engineering Team Lead based in Kiel, Germany, with 11 years of experience building modern web UIs using JavaScript/TypeScript and frameworks like React, Vue and Svelte. He combines hands-on frontend engineering and library development with people leadership, currently managing a team at Cloudflight to deliver HMIs and user-facing software. His background spans CMS and backend work (Drupal, Symfony), hybrid app development, and API design, giving him a pragmatic full-stack perspective. Outside of code he brings creative discipline from a long career in live sound and studio work—skills that inform his attention to detail and real-time systems thinking. An avid musician and photographer, he continually experiments with audio and postproduction concepts that often inspire novel UX and interaction ideas.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts, Multimedia Production, 2,0, Master of Arts, Multimedia Production, 2,0 at Fachhochschule Kiel
English, German, French, Spanish