Hi

I am Nils
Founder and Tech Lead, I help teams ship well-designed fullstack platforms on time.
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Skills

Programming Languages

TypeScript
Rust
Haskell
Elm
Elixir
Python
Java

Frameworks

React
Svelte
Next.js

Leadership & Strategy

Platform Architecture
Technical Leadership
Product Strategy
Team Scaling
Engineering Coaching

Backend & Infrastructure

Linux
Docker
Nix
Node.js
Bun
Postgres
SQLite
Supabase
Airtable
GraphQL
JSON:API
Apache Kafka
AWS
Google Cloud
Vercel
Digital Ocean
Netlify

About

Led web-development of streaming platforms serving 20M+ users; co-founded a course that has trained 400+ engineers in Advanced Software Design; Co-founded a Devtools company who's product speeds up codebase understanding by 4x.

Work Experience

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UpToSpeed & Command Center

Oct 2023 - Present
Co-Founder & CTO

Built UpToSpeed, a codebase-understanding tool that makes developers 4x faster at understanding codebases.

Remote 路 Portugal & USA
LLMs
AI Agents
Vector DBs
Static Analysis
Developer Tools
Typescript
Rust
Haskell
Python
Nix
DevOps
CI
React
Svelte
VSCode plugin
Next.js
Kafka
Supabase
PostgreSQL
SQLite
Vercel
Docker
Bun
Node.js
By leveraging AI and static analysis, UpToSpeed can take any codebase as input and output a full course to learn that codebase. adopted by a Swedish product team for repeat onboardings and praised by several smart contract auditors.
E

Edgy Thoughts Limited

Oct 2018 - Present
Founder

My UK based software consultancy and contracting company.

London, UK
W

Warner Bros. Discovery

May 2017 - Apr 2021 路 4 yrs
Senior Consultant & Tech Lead

Joined via Mirado in Sweden, then headhunted to London to run the global web platform initiative.

London, UK 路 Stockholm, Sweden
Video Streaming
Reusable platform
Team Scaling

Scaled the core web platform team from 4 to 20+ engineers and led flagship launches including Winter Olympics on Dplay, Eurosport, GCN, Discovery Plus, and Discovery+ India, 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and Culminating in launching Discovery+ Globally that today has over 20 million subscribers while building brand-agnostic tooling that unlocked rapid rollouts.

Tech Lead Web
Contract
May 2018 - Apr 2021 路 3 yrs
London, United Kingdom

Directed multi-market product launches, guided 20+ engineers, and balanced commercial objectives with architectural rigor.

  • Dplay Nordics
  • Eurosport Player
  • 2020 Tokyo Olympics
  • Discovery+ (20 million subscribers)
Software Design
System Architecture
Recruiting
Team Management
Stakeholder Buy-In
Library Design
TypeScript
React
JSON:API
Frontend Developer
Contract
May 2017 - Apr 2021 路 4 yrs
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area

Rebuilt Dplay 2.0 from scratch into a resilient SPA serving three markets and hosting the 2018 Winter Olympics launch week.

TypeScript
JavaScript
JSON:API
React
My projects

Peek at other projects

I like building stuff!

Tinyito

Personalised alphabet cards for multilingual kids鈥攇enerate bespoke characters, print-ready decks, and delight in minutes.

Generative AI
Image Generation
Education
Typescript
Next.js
Supabase
Vercel

Magikal

Turn you and your partner into a sticker鈥攐ne-shot avatar generation with shareable packs and a playful prompt playground.

Generative AI
Image Generation
Creative Tools
Typescript
Next.js
Supabase
Vercel

Linguistic Antipatterns

A living handbook that teaches you to spot and fix linguistic antipatterns鈥攏ames and docs that mislead engineers and seed bugs.

Writing
Engineering Culture
Workshops
Gatsby
Testimonials

Hear from my peers and coaching clients

Straight from the horses mouth

Huy Tran

Huy Tran

Worked together
Sana Labs

Senior EngineerSana Labs

"Amazingly creative and level-headed are words that come to mind when I think about Nils. I had the pleasure of being in a startup with Nils as both a developer and CTO for a year, creating both bleeding edge web and mobile applications. Nils has the ability to quickly grasp problems and consider numerous solutions that helped the team maintain a rapid progress. He was also a great mood lifter with his finger dexterity on the guitar that seems to come effortlessly. Nils would be a true asset to any positions requiring any web based development such as deployment, testing, backend, frontend and has certainly my full recommendation."
Chase Cross-Davis

Chase Cross-Davis

Coached
Google

Software EngineerGoogle

"It鈥檚 impossible to overstate how impactful and helpful Nils鈥檚 sessions have been for me. They gave me a strong, systems-level grasp of software design and how my brain works, replaced daily dread with clarity, and directly led to a career step-up鈥擨 now own higher-impact work and serve as an official reviewer on major design docs."
Contact

Let鈥檚 build something great together

Email works best, but I鈥檓 active on LinkedIn too.