Nils Vogels
Technical Product Manager SURFfilesender at SURFnet
Brabantine City Row United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNils Vogels is a Technical Product Manager with 15 years of experience blending product leadership and hands-on engineering across cloud, infrastructure and IoT domains. He currently leads SURFfilesender at SURFnet, bringing practical delivery experience from earlier roles as a cloud architect, IT infrastructure consultant, and co-owner of a 3D-printer company. His open-source contributions show deep backend and embedded systems chops—ranging from firmware work on RepRap printers to substantial backend maintenance and feature work for SickChill/SiCKRAGE. Comfortable bridging technical teams and stakeholders, he combines systems-level thinking with pragmatic product prioritization for secure, scalable file and cloud services. Based in the UK, he often operates at the intersection of networking, messaging and cloud tooling, with a track record of retiring legacy services and improving operational safety and observability. Colleagues describe him as an engineer-minded PM who still digs into code and configuration to get tough integrations over the line.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Propaedeuse, Propaedeuse at Hogeschool van AmsterdamVWO, VWO at Goois LyceumHitachi
English, Dutch, German, French
Github Skills (21)
ncb10
c-language10
python10
firmware10
torrent10
time-series10
gcode10
epic10
api10
sys10
embedded10
web-development10
cprogramming-language10
smart-tv10
ode9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
SickChill/sickchill
Mar 2018 - Nov 2019
Less rage, more chill.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 15 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Nils primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the application. Their work included updating and refactoring various providers (like Usenet-Crawler and SpeedCD) and removing outdated services (NotifyMyAndroid). They also made updates to the codebase by removing references to obsolete services, fixing typos, and upgrading dependencies. Moreover, the user modified configuration files and updated HTML parsers, demonstrating proficiency in maintaining and improving the application's core functionalities.
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SiCKRAGE/SiCKRAGE
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Mirror of OFFICIAL SiCKRAGE
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 39 PRs, 130 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nils primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the SickRage application, addressing bugs and implementing new features. Their work included adding a history limit, fixing indentation issues, and converting webserve.py to Mako templates. The user also added disk space overview, implemented changes to notification systems (including Twitter and Pushover), and removed trailing slashes from torrent paths. Furthermore, they fixed typos and included code for the Nyaa provider.
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