Niko Schmuck - Developing Architect, Technical Lead "gridlytics"

Q: Where is Niko based?

Niko is based in Hamburg, Germany and can operate in on-site , hybrid , and remote work models.

Q: What languages does Niko speak?

Niko speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced) .

Q: How many years of experience does Niko have?

Niko has at least 30 years of experience. During this time, Niko has worked in at least 24 different roles and for 27 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 10 months . Note that Niko may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Niko's latest experience?

Niko's most recent position is Developing Architect, Technical Lead "gridlytics" at HH Energienetze .

Q: What companies has Niko worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Niko has worked for HH Energienetze , Stromnetz Hamburg , Adobe Systems Inc. , Zalando SE , Niko Schmuck – Software Architecture, and Development & Consulting .

Q: Which industries is Niko most experienced in?

Niko is most experienced in industries like Information Technology , Retail , and Media and Entertainment . Niko also has some experience in Utilities , Energy , and Education .

Q: Which business areas is Niko most experienced in?

Niko is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology , Product Development , and Project Management . Niko also has some experience in Business Intelligence , Quality Assurance , and Sales .

Q: Which industries has Niko worked in recently?

Niko has recently worked in industries like Information Technology , Utilities , and Energy .

Q: Which business areas has Niko worked in recently?

Niko has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology , Product Development , and Project Management .

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Hamburg, Germany

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Experience

Jul 2023 - Present

2 years 10 months

Developing Architect, Technical Lead "gridlytics"

HH Energienetze

Building a data integration platform for high, medium, and low-voltage assets for contextual time series analysis with master data from SCADA control system (IEC 60870-5-104), INIS, and SAP.
Responsible for the architecture and implementation of the solution and acting as a sparring partner for the Product Owner.
Technologies used: Kotlin, Spring Boot, Maven, TimescaleDB, PostgreSQL, Liquibase, Elements IoT, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Python, Jupyter, and various API gateways.

Sep 2021 - Jun 2023

1 year 10 months

Hamburg, Germany

Developing Architect, Technical Lead "datalytics"

Stromnetz Hamburg

Designing and building a data lake/data analytics platform for the eMobility backend to improve the operation of charging station infrastructure through monitoring.
Supporting site planning through reporting and analysis of partner feedback to iteratively expand the platform.
Technologies used: Kotlin, Java, Spring Boot, Maven, TimescaleDB, PostgreSQL, Liquibase, Apache Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes AKS (Azure), Grafana, and Jupyter.

Sep 2021 - May 2022

9 months

Senior Software Developer

Adobe Systems Inc.

Designing and full-stack developing an internal tool for static code analysis as part of the company-wide Vulnerability Labs or shift-left initiative.
Integrating the analysis into pull requests of all GitHub Enterprise repositories.
Developing a user interface to support security researchers in pattern recognition.
Technologies used: Python, React with Redux, Spectrum, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS SQS, Docker, Kubernetes, Skaffold, Semgrep, GitHub Enterprise API, Grafana, and Helm.

Mar 2021 - Sep 2021

7 months

Berlin, Germany

Senior Software Developer

Zalando SE

Designing and developing a new microservice for the Greenfield-7 project (Rotterdam) within the warehouse management system (zalos3).
Providing metrics on process utilization for brokers.
Technologies used: Kotlin, Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Flyway, Apache Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes (AWS), Maven, Mockito, and WireMock.

Nov 2019 - Jun 2020

8 months

Neckarsulm, Germany

Software Developer

Schwarz IT

Designing and implementing a microservice for live visualization and documentation of components and dependencies in a complex Kubernetes landscape (GKE).
Setting up monitoring for these components with Grafana dashboards using templates.
Technologies used: Kotlin, Spring Boot, JavaScript, AsciiDoctor, D3.js, Graphviz, Go, Grafana, Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Apr 2019 - Mar 2021

2 years

Hamburg, Germany

Software Architect, Team Lead Data Analytics

Stromnetz Hamburg

Further development and refactoring of the eMobility backend to manage the charging station infrastructure for electric vehicles.
Splitting the platform into vertical segments and introducing Apache Kafka.
Migrating to a central user management based on OAuth 2.0.
Building a time series data analytics platform in close collaboration with the business department.
Using Kotlin, Java, Spring Boot, TimescaleDB, Grafana, PostgreSQL, liquibase, Apache Kafka, Akka, SOAP, WebSockets, Apache Tomcat, Docker, Maven, Bamboo, FusionAuth and a Kubernetes proof of concept on Azure.

Oct 2018 - Mar 2019

6 months

Hamburg, Germany

Software Developer

Shopping24

Extending clickout tracking and developing new microservices to predict cost-per-click values.
Full-stack development of a user interface to configure Solr-specific tunings for the Shopping24 portals.
Introducing complex end-to-end test scenarios.
Using Kotlin, Java, Spring Boot, Solr, PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Maven, Jenkins, vue.js, Mockito, JUnit5 and testcontainers.

Apr 2018 - Sep 2018

6 months

CTO

Mega-Ventures

Building the technical infrastructure for algorithmic trading on crypto exchanges.
Developing algorithms for automated trade execution and real-time analysis of aggregated data streams.
Using Kotlin, Apache Flink, reactiveX (rxJava), WebSockets, Jooby, netty, Gradle, Docker, Kubernetes and Google Cloud (GCP).

Feb 2018 - Mar 2018

2 months

Software Architect

Hermes Europe

Architecture review and consulting for the migration to a microservice architecture for European Routing Services.
Developing a REST API with microservices to determine routing information relevant for processing and replace a monolith.
Building a continuous deployment pipeline and providing agile coaching.
Using Java, Spring Boot, ActiveMQ, Gradle, Jenkins Pipelines, Docker, OpenShift (AppAgile) and ReadyAPI.

Sep 2017 - Jan 2018

5 months

Hamburg, Germany

Software Engineer / Software Architect

natcon7

Architecting and developing a SCADA dashboard and monitoring system for fleets of renewable energy installations.
Focusing on the backend stack for efficient analysis of sensor data streams and aggregated delivery to clients.
Using Java, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, OPC XML DA (SOAP), PostgreSQL, flyway, JavaFX, RMI, Docker, Gradle, Jenkins Pipelines, Ansible and Kubernetes.

May 2017 - Sep 2017

5 months

Hamburg, Germany

Software Developer

Shopping24

Further development of the central product search engine for the Shopping24 portals.
Adaptation of tools for product data import, processing, and refinement, as well as for invoicing, tracking server, and log data analysis.
Prototypical development of purchase probability predictions using machine learning (logistic regression).
Use of Java, Spring Boot, Guava, PostgreSQL, flyway, Solr, Redis, Docker, Maven, Jenkins Pipelines, Tomcat, Ansible, Grafana, Graylog, Python, and scikit-learn.

Nov 2016 - Apr 2017

6 months

Hamburg, Germany

Lead Software Developer

AdTriba

Building the technical infrastructure for a SaaS startup in online marketing.
Development of a low-latency tracking server with around 25 million requests per day.
Creation of an ETL pipeline in Jenkins, as well as development and introduction of a central configuration management API.
Extension of tracking dashboards.
Use of Java, Jooby, netty, AWS S3, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, Lambda, DynamoDB, Redshift, RDS, Route53, Jenkins 2.0 Pipelines with Groovy, Python, zappa, packer, terraform, JavaScript, vue.js, and Highcharts.

Mar 2016 - Oct 2016

8 months

Hamburg, Germany

Technical Designer & Software Developer

OTTO

Further development of the product data supply for online marketing channels, including migrating to streaming.
Design and development of CROS (Canonical and Redirect Optimization Software) 2.0 in close coordination with the business unit.
Use of Java, Liferay Portal, Spring Boot, Akka Streams, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Tomcat, Jetty, Gradle, Jenkins, OpenStack, Ansible, Python, and Scrapy or Scrapinghub.

Aug 2015 - Feb 2016

7 months

Hamburg, Germany

Software Developer

OTTO

Further development of the product system of the eCommerce platform "Product & Review" in the Scrum team.
Refactoring of the architecture towards splitting into microservices.
Design and introduction of a customer review microservice.
Implementation of autoscaling with Edison and Mesos.
Use of Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB, Tomcat, Jetty, Gradle, Jenkins, Varnish, Mesos, Marathon, JavaScript, and SASS.

Oct 2014 - Jul 2015

10 months

Tech Lead & Scrum Master

MarkLogic

Requirement engineering, design, and implementation of a management information dashboard for HannoverRe's insurance applications.
Importing and analyzing application data according to the medical risk factors of each end insurer.
Leading the team as Tech Lead and Scrum Master.
Use of Java, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Thymeleaf, Apache Camel, MarkLogic Server, Highcharts, Maven, and Jenkins.

Feb 2014 - Jul 2014

6 months

Hamburg, Germany

Software Developer

SinnerSchrader

Development of an e-commerce webshop for a Swiss department store chain.
Adaptation of the order process and integration of third-party systems (CRM, scoring, payment provider DataTrans) both synchronously (REST) and asynchronously (JMS).
Use of Java, Hybris 5 eCommerce Platform, Scala, Jetty, Scalatra, REST, SOAP, JMS, ActiveMQ, MySQL, Maven, Jetty, Tomcat 6 and Linux.

Oct 2013 - Oct 2014

1 year 1 month

Hamburg, Germany

Software Developer

Adobe Systems

Design and development of a web tool to control the release and deployment process for Adobe Shared Cloud components across multiple environments.
Integration into existing Jenkins processes and AWS provisioning.
Use of Play! Framework, Amazon AWS (EC2, ELB, AS, CFN, EB, S3), GitHub Enterprise, Hosted Chef, Jenkins, MySQL, Maven, nginx, Linux and Windows.

Feb 2013 - Dec 2013

11 months

Hamburg, Germany

Software Architect

OTTO

Verification of the non-functional requirements for the new e-commerce platform otto.de.
Conducting robustness and performance tests, evaluating scalability, and analyzing bottlenecks.
Advising the functional teams on performance and architecture.
Use of REST architecture, Groovy, Gradle, JUnit, HTMLUnit, Jenkins plugin, Git, Xceptance XLT, Python, Django, flot, R, Graphite, graphoo and DigitalOcean.

Feb 2013 - Sep 2013

8 months

Hamburg, Germany

Software Developer and Consultant

Adobe Systems

Design and development of the internal web application "Cloud Labs" for creating and deploying shared cloud workers (Java/C) in the Amazon Cloud.
Implementation of features for scaling and monitoring the workers.
Use of Play! Framework, Amazon AWS (EC2, ELB, AS, CFN, EB, S3), GitHub Enterprise, Hosted Chef, Jenkins, MySQL, Maven, nginx, Linux and Windows.

Feb 2012 - Nov 2012

10 months

Hamburg, Germany

Software Architect and Developer

Gruner+Jahr

Technical design and implementation of a new web content management system for the Exclusive Living publishing group.
Dynamic generation of forms from content type definitions using JSON schemas.
Use of Play! Framework, AngularJS, JavaScript, HTML5, Bootstrap, JSON schema, MongoDB and Mercurial.

Sep 2011 - Jan 2013

1 year 5 months

Hamburg, Germany

Software Architect

OTTO

Technical conception of the core architecture for the highly scalable eCommerce platform Lhotse (otto.de).
Collaboration in the Scrum team with focus on product, search, and navigation systems.
Utilized REST architecture, Spring Framework, MongoDB, Freemarker, Python, Flask, Gradle, JUnit, JMeter, Jenkins, Git, Fredhopper, Linux, and Tomcat.

May 2011 - Present

15 years

Freelance Software Architect and Developer

Niko Schmuck – Software Architecture, Development & Consulting

Consulting in early project phases, including technology selection, feasibility analyses, and supporting product management in building teams and introducing agile methods.
Serving as technical project manager, coach, and Scrum Master in agile software development teams.
Analyzing and designing software systems, creating system architectures, and implementing them in development.
Conducting reviews of existing systems, developing improvement measures, and carrying out extensive refactorings.
Designing and developing software solutions with object-oriented design and domain-driven design.
Defining appropriate system boundaries when introducing and expanding microservices and self-contained systems.
Implementing software solutions in complex system landscapes, as well as integrating and connecting backend systems.
Developing automated tests and integrating them into continuous build and deployment pipelines.

May 2011 - Aug 2011

4 months

Bremen, Germany

Developer in the Scrum Team

neuland bfi

Integrated PayPal payment method into a multi-tenant web shop for BonPrix.
Designed and implemented a cross-device shopping cart.
Introduced Sonar and Jenkins as a continuous build infrastructure.
Used Spring Framework, Hibernate, Velocity, Ant, Oracle, JUnit, Sonar, Jenkins, Subversion, Git, and Tomcat.

Jan 2011 - Mar 2011

3 months

Hamburg, Germany

Technical Project Manager, Architect, Developer

Hoffmann & Campe (Episode 3)

Modernized and refactored a WebObjects-based CRM and address/response management tool.
Performed data migrations and implemented import, export, and reporting functionalities for magazine subscription customers.
Used Play! Framework, JPA, Hibernate, Oracle, MySQL, Pentaho Kettle, JavaScript, jQuery, Selenium, and Hudson.

Oct 2010 - Nov 2010

2 months

Hamburg, Germany

Technical Project Manager, Architect, Developer

G+J Exclusive Living (Episode 3)

Developed a highly configurable white-label B2C shopping system including backoffice.
Provided a REST JSON API for integration into Gruner & Jahr's online offerings; first used for the Beef online shop.
Used Play! Framework, JPA, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery, Selenium, and Hudson.

Jul 2010 - Sep 2010

3 months

Hamburg, Germany

Technical Project Manager, Architect, Developer

Folge 3

New development of the restaurant guide eatopia.de as an extendable web application for restaurant recommendations.
Implementation of user functions for suggestions and reviews as well as backoffice functionality for an editorial team.
Technologies used: Play! Framework, JPA, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery, Selenium, and Hudson.

Apr 2010 - Jun 2010

3 months

Hamburg, Germany

Architect, Developer

ZEIT ONLINE (Folge 3)

Developed internal tools for aggregating Apache logfiles (zeit.de) and near real-time analysis with about 5 minutes delay.
Graphical presentation of results in dashboards for management and evaluation of publications using Solr.
Technologies used: Spring Framework, Hibernate, Solr, PostgreSQL, jFreeChart, Spring Web MVC, jQuery, flot, Maven, and Hudson.

Jan 2009 - Mar 2010

1 year 3 months

Hamburg, Germany

Architect, Developer

Adobe Systems

Designed and implemented an XMP-based search index within a distributed asset-processing infrastructure of the Scene7 Image Production System.
Extended the IPS SOAP API to use the metadata search index.
Technologies used: Java, Spring Framework, MongoDB, Solr, ActiveMQ, JMS, Gradle, TeamCity, and Perforce.

Aug 2006 - Dec 2008

2 years 5 months

Hamburg, Germany

Scrum Master and Developer

Adobe Systems

Architected and developed the web-based Device Intelligence Portal for communication with OEMs about Flash Lite support on their mobile devices.
Connected to the Flash certification portal via REST API (Grails) and exported XML data to the Online Device Library for Device Central (part of Adobe Creative Suite).
Acted as Scrum Master in an interdisciplinary team (development, UX, QA).
Technologies used: Java, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, Tomcat, initially HTML with Spring Web MVC and later Flex in the frontend.

Jul 2005 - Aug 2006

1 year 2 months

Hamburg, Germany

Technical Project Manager

OTTO

Technical responsibility for the relaunch of frankonia.de on the open-source eCommerce platform osecom as an alternative to Intershop Enfinity.
Collaboration with internal (Otto UK) and external service providers.
Implementation of the checkout process with Spring Web Flow, as well as integration of SAP ERP for availability checks and order processing.
Involved in prototyping during a pilot phase and participated in international eCommerce workshops of the Otto Group with responsibility for the core architecture.
Technologies used: Java, Spring, Spring Web Flow, Hibernate, Lucene, SAP Webservices/SOAP, MySQL, Tomcat, Apache, Subversion, and CruiseControl.

Nov 2003 - Jun 2005

1 year 8 months

Hamburg, Germany

System Developer

OTTO

Collaborated on the group-wide eCommerce platform Pyramdi based on Intershop Enfinity MultiSite.
Migrated to Enfinity Suite 6 and did entity modeling and reengineering with UML.
Introduced SOAP web services for a Flash-based styling shop and performed performance tests.
Used Java, Intershop Enfinity, UML, CruiseControl, Ant, XSLT, The Grinder, Jython, SOAP, EJB, Tomcat, CVS, and roundup.

Oct 2002 - Oct 2003

1 year 1 month

Hamburg, Germany

Quality Software Engineer

CoreMedia

Developed test plans for a new workflow modeling component of the Content Application Platform (CAP).
Refactored the CAP multi-platform installer and introduced an XML-based state machine for installing CAP components.
Built and expanded the test suite for CAP core components in collaboration with R&D.
Introduced XSLT-based report generation for multi-platform tests and integrated it into continuous integration software.
Used Java, Python, XML, XSLT, UML, Poseidon, JUnit, CruiseControl, and Ant.

Mar 2001 - Sep 2002

1 year 7 months

Oslo, Norway

Software Engineer

ontopia

Worked on product development of the Ontopia Knowledge Suite after ontopia spun off from empolis.
Implemented a Navigator SDK (JSP tag libraries) for web applications.
Developed the generic topic map browser "Omnigator" as a showcase for the Navigator framework.
Designed and implemented an editor SDK for topic map-based web applications (ISO 13250).
Used Java, JSP tag libraries, Tomcat, Resin, BEA WebLogic, and JUnit.

Sep 1999 - Mar 2001

1 year 7 months

Würzburg, Germany

Software Developer

empolis (formerly STEP)

Developed projects using the SigmaLink SGML/XML CMS.
Co-developed a SigmaLink module for the Distributed Processing Management Suite from Wiley-VCH to manage journal publications.
Implemented import and export of large content repositories (including BLV/wissen.de).
Conducted a workshop on the SigmaLink Reference Works Module for Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag.
Designed and developed a web application for reporting published catalog variants for Heinze Verlag.
Used Java, Python, Oracle, WebMacro, Servlets, JSWDK, and JBuilder.

Jun 1998 - Aug 1999

1 year 3 months

Bremen, Germany

Freelance Software Developer

tamito (formerly planetsound)

Delivered an online shop for sunburst merchandising on behalf of an internet agency.
Implemented e-commerce features, including sales of merchandising items for Herbert Grönemeyer.
Used SoftCart, Perl, HTML, and JavaScript.

Jan 1997 - Jun 1998

1 year 6 months

Würzburg, Germany

Software Developer (Student Assistant)

Institute of Egyptology, University of Würzburg

Development of a graphical temple navigation system (scenario) to analyze relationships between ritual scenes based on an existing TUSTEP text database.
Development of a tool for creating and linking a hierarchical map system (LinkCreator).
Use of Java, AWT, Swing, Applets and WebStart (JNLP).

Jun 1996 - Jun 1999

3 years 1 month

Osnabrück, Germany

Freelance Software Developer

intro music magazine

Design and implementation of the online portal for the intro music magazine.
Development of a web CMS for managing articles, including converting from Word files and importing them into the CMS.
Use of PHP, Perl, MySQL, Apache and Linux.

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Retail, Media and Entertainment, Utilities, Energy, and Education.

Information Technology

Retail

Media and Entertainment

Utilities

Energy

Education

Business Area Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management, Business Intelligence, Quality Assurance, and Sales.

Information Technology

Product Development

Project Management

Business Intelligence

Quality Assurance

Sales

Summary

For over 20 years I have been working as a software developer and architect for custom software systems. During that time, I have worked in both product and project development, allowing me to gain a wide range of experience across the entire software lifecycle.

I would be happy to support your team as well:

in an early project phase through consulting (e.g. technology selection and technical feasibility) and by supporting product management in setting up a team and agile methods
as technical project lead/coach/Scrum Master in agile software development teams
in analysis and design, system architecture, and software development
by reviewing existing systems and developing improvement measures, as well as performing comprehensive refactorings

Understanding customer requirements as the basis for developing a tailored solution is very important to me. Working at the interface between technology and business requirements has long been a central need for me -- IT should not be an end in itself but must create added value.

I enjoy diving into new areas of work, and I find it easy to integrate into new teams and contribute collaboratively. I also enjoy working in international teams.

Skills

Methods

Process Models: Agile Methods, Kanban, Xp (Extreme Programming), Tdd, Design Thinking, Scrum, User Story Mapping
Architecture Styles: Scs, Microservices
Software Modeling: Ooad, Ddd, Uml

Technologies

Programming Languages: Kotlin, Python, Javascript, Clojure, Groovy, Scala, Java, Bash, Php, C, Go, Ruby
Application Servers: Nginx, Jetty, Jboss, Glassfish, Apache Tomcat, Weblogic, Lighttpd
Web Frameworks: Spring Boot, Spring Web Mvc, Play! Framework, Flask, Quarkus, Grails, Django, Sinatra
Relational Databases: Postgresql, Oracle, Ms Sql Server, Db2, Mysql
Nosql Databases: Mongodb, Dynamodb, Couchdb, Marklogic
Search & Retrieval: Elasticsearch, Lucene, Solr
Integration: Apache Kafka, Jms, Activemq, Apache Servicemix, Apache Camel
Java Apis And Libraries: Jersey, Jax-rs, Jpa, Hibernate, Guava, Overview Of Libraries In The Java Ecosystem
Testing: Junit, Jmeter, Easymock, Mockito, Kotlintest, Selenium, Jasmine
Frontend: Html5, Thymeleaf, Highcharts, Jquery, Freemarker, Velocity, Vue.js, Angular, React
Web Standards: Xml, Html, Json, Xsl(t)
Development Environment: Intellij Idea, Eclipse Ide, Emacs, Vi
Source Code Management: Git, Enterprise Bitbucket, Github, Gitlab, Mercurial, Subversion, Cvs, Perforce
Build Tools: Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Bamboo (Hosted), Chef, Puppet, Teamcity
Cloud Platforms: Docker, Aws, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Mesos, Marathon, Digitalocean
Operating Systems: Linux, Unix (Solaris), Windows, Mac Os X

Competencies

Enthusiasm And High Self-motivation
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Innovative Drive With Focus On Overarching Goals
Flexibility Combined With Pragmatism And Creativity
Strong Communication Skills
International Experience: 1.5 Years In Norway, Multiple Postings In The Usa
Collaboration With Other Cultures
Willingness To Learn And Strong Interest In Continuous Development

Industry Knowledge

Ecommerce
Retail
Logistics
Commercial Off-the-shelf Software
Content Management
Media / Internet Services
Energy
Trading
Online Marketing
Insurance

Languages

German

Native

English

Advanced

Education

Oct 1992 - Jul 1999

Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg

Diploma in Physics · Physics · Würzburg, Germany

Oct 1989 - May 1992

Technisches Gymnasium Karlsruhe

High School Diploma · Karlsruhe, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Scrum Master Certification

Ken Schwaber

Enfinity Multisite: Business Logic Implementation + Programming

Intershop

Object Oriented Analysis & Design Using UML

Sun Microsystems

Oracle 8i Db Administration, Backup & Recovery

Oracle

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 37

Experience in Information Technology 21.5 y

Avg length 1 y 4 m

Longest experience 14 y 11 m

Global Experience

Countries worked in 2 (Germany, Norway)

Primary country Germany

Expertise

Recent roles Developing Architect, Technical Lead "gridlytics", Developing Architect, Technical Lead "datalytics", Senior Software Developer

Main industries Information Technology, Retail, Media and Entertainment

Main business areas Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Qualifications

Highest degree Master

Certifications earned 4

Profile

Created

September 2025

Last Update

April 2026

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Frequently asked questions

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Where is Niko based?

Niko is based in Hamburg, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

What languages does Niko speak?

Niko speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced).

How many years of experience does Niko have?

Niko has at least 30 years of experience. During this time, Niko has worked in at least 24 different roles and for 27 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 10 months. Note that Niko may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Niko be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Niko would be well-suited for roles such as: Developing Architect, Technical Lead "gridlytics", Developing Architect, Technical Lead "datalytics", Senior Software Developer.

What is Niko's latest experience?

Niko's most recent position is Developing Architect, Technical Lead "gridlytics" at HH Energienetze.

What companies has Niko worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Niko has worked for HH Energienetze, Stromnetz Hamburg, Adobe Systems Inc., Zalando SE, Niko Schmuck – Software Architecture, and Development & Consulting.

Which industries is Niko most experienced in?

Niko is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Retail, and Media and Entertainment. Niko also has some experience in Utilities, Energy, and Education.

Which business areas is Niko most experienced in?

Niko is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management. Niko also has some experience in Business Intelligence, Quality Assurance, and Sales.

Which industries has Niko worked in recently?

Niko has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Utilities, and Energy.

Which business areas has Niko worked in recently?

Niko has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.

What is Niko's education?

Niko holds a Master in Physics from Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg.

Does Niko have any certificates?

Niko has 4 certificates. Among them, these include: Scrum Master Certification, Enfinity Multisite: Business Logic Implementation + Programming, and Object Oriented Analysis & Design Using UML.

What is the availability of Niko?

Niko will be available full-time from July 2026.

What is the rate of Niko?

Niko's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.