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NILSCichy

Versatile Web Dev

I am a multicultural Software Engineer, eager to learn and open minded from the cradle. For now, specialised in Web Development on the backend side, but new challenges are always welcome!
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About me

French Nat
German Nat*
English C2*
Spanish B2
Catalan B2*

Self hosting, coding personal projects, optimizing my dev setup

baking cakes, cutting vegetables, sharpening my knives

cichy.menu

Fan of Mandatory & Valorant, but likes to follow other games and teams as well

mandatory.gg

ZSA Moonlander & self-built KLOR

My QMK Fork

Keeping an overview is a must, things must make sense

Stagnating stresses me out, this pushes me to constantly learn new things

Can deeply focus on a task for multiple hours, be "in the zone", but struggle with multi-tasking

Reads the friendly manual. That's more a skill than personality though

Experiences

Experiences

  1. Freelance IT Consultant / Web Developer Aug 2025 - Present
    GrabX Remote
    • Building a high-available communication datahub with Kafka, Kubernetes, Javascript/Typescript
    • Short Projects: data transformation pipeline, azure t3 monorepo template
  2. Trainee Software Development Feb 2024 - Jul 2025
    Check24 Profis Berlin, DE
    • Fullstack Web Development (PHP Symfony Doctrine Mysql Twig Javascript React CSS) for the 'craftsmen' and then for the 'lessons' products.
    • IAM: Set up SSO for all "Profis" internal tools (Keycloak, Nginx, Ansible, Debian).
    • Security: Performed blackbox web-application pentests, curated a daily CVE list & developed an attack surface monitoring application (Go Templ DaisyUI Htmx Mysql).
  3. Backend Python Developer Jun 2022 - Nov 2023
    Ella Lab Berlin, DE
    • Developed web applications and micro-services (Python, FastAPI, Socketio, Strawberry-GraphQL, Auth0, MongoDB
    • Prepared IaC and python-app templates to improve our CI/CD pipeline (cookiecutter, jinja and GCP APIs: Cloud Build, Artifacts Registry, Cloud Run, PubSubs, etc.)
  4. Backend Developer Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
    HPI Potsdam, DE
    • Developed the backend-side of a mobile application dps.training, with Python Django RESTFramework and Channels (Websockets), PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, Docker, and Docker-Compose
IT Systems Engineering B.Sc. Sep 2018 - Mar 2022
Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam, DE
  • Bachelor Thesis: Visualisation of a Dynamic Patient Simulation (DPS) by generating a 2D map
  • Bachelor Project: dps.training
  • Final Note: 1.7
Baccalauréat Scientifique 2018
Fénelon Grasse Grasse, FR
  • Final Note: 18.89/20

About me

Get In Touch

Languages

French Nat
German Nat*
English C2*
Spanish B2
Catalan B2*

Hobbies

  • Coding & Homelab
    Self hosting, coding personal projects, optimizing my dev setup
  • Cooking, Baking & Knives
    baking cakes, cutting vegetables, sharpening my knives
  • Gaming & Esports
    Fan of Mandatory & Valorant, but likes to follow other games and teams as well
  • Split Mechanical Keyboards
    ZSA Moonlander & self-built KLOR

Experiences

  1. Freelance IT Consultant / Web Developer Aug 2025 - Present
    GrabX Remote
    • Building a high-available communication datahub with Kafka, Kubernetes, Javascript/Typescript
    • Short Projects: data transformation pipeline, azure t3 monorepo template
  2. Trainee Software Development Feb 2024 - Jul 2025
    Check24 Profis Berlin, DE
    • Fullstack Web Development (PHP Symfony Doctrine Mysql Twig Javascript React CSS) for the 'craftsmen' and then for the 'lessons' products.
    • IAM: Set up SSO for all "Profis" internal tools (Keycloak, Nginx, Ansible, Debian).
    • Security: Performed blackbox web-application pentests, curated a daily CVE list & developed an attack surface monitoring application (Go Templ DaisyUI Htmx Mysql).
  3. Backend Python Developer Jun 2022 - Nov 2023
    Ella Lab Berlin, DE
    • Developed web applications and micro-services (Python, FastAPI, Socketio, Strawberry-GraphQL, Auth0, MongoDB
    • Prepared IaC and python-app templates to improve our CI/CD pipeline (cookiecutter, jinja and GCP APIs: Cloud Build, Artifacts Registry, Cloud Run, PubSubs, etc.)
  4. Backend Developer Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
    HPI Potsdam, DE
    • Developed the backend-side of a mobile application dps.training, with Python Django RESTFramework and Channels (Websockets), PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, Docker, and Docker-Compose
IT Systems Engineering B.Sc. Sep 2018 - Mar 2022
Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam, DE
  • Bachelor Thesis: Visualisation of a Dynamic Patient Simulation (DPS) by generating a 2D map
  • Bachelor Project: dps.training
  • Final Note: 1.7
Baccalauréat Scientifique 2018
Fénelon Grasse Grasse, FR
  • Final Note: 18.89/20

Personality

  • Control Freak Keeping an overview is a must, things must make sense
  • Progress Addict Stagnating stresses me out, this pushes me to constantly learn new things
  • Zone Diver Can deeply focus on a task for multiple hours, be "in the zone", but struggle with multi-tasking
  • RTFM Reads the friendly manual. That's more a skill than personality though

Technologies

Languages

Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
PHP
HTML5
CSS3

Web

FastAPI
React
htmx
Django
templ
Symfony
GraphQL
Socket.io

Databases

SQLite
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Redis

DevOps & IaC

Docker
Ansible
Nginx
Caddy
Kubernetes
Apache Kafka
Google Cloud
Azure

Operating Systems

Linux Mint
NixOS
Ubuntu
Debian
Proxmox

Security & Auth

Keycloak
PocketID
OIDC
Yubico
Burp Suite

Tools - Local & Home Setup

kitty
Neovim
OpenCode
Pi
tmux
Herdr
Grafana
Forgejo