Johannes Nicolai

CEO

Berlin, Germany16 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founded a community of 100,000 GitHub Enterprise developers.
Pioneered the IssueOps concept within GitHub.
Designed impactful workshops and keynotes for GitHub.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Solutions Engineer with a strong focus on Open Source and Continuous Integration.

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GitContinuous IntegrationOpen SourceAgile MethodologiesScrumSoftware EngineeringCloud ComputingJavaSubversionMavenAntHudsonRESTSOAWeb Services

About

I am an Open Source enthusiast highly interested in distributed systems, Application Lifecycle Management, continuous integration, distributed development and enterprise application integration. I do not like to just passively watch those trends but prefer working in teams that can actively influence them by providing innovative products and services.

Experience

16 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Postman

3 roles

Strategic Solutions Engineering

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Regional Solutions Engineering Lead

Jul 2024 – Oct 2024 · 3 mos

Strategic Solutions Engineering

Nov 2022 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

Poolside

Director of Solutions Engineering (embedded into LLM Applied Research Team as Chief Vibe Officer)

Oct 2024 – Dec 2024 · 2 mos · Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany · Remote

Planetscale

Solutions Engineer

Oct 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

Github

2 roles

Principal Solutions Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2018 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

co-founder of German GitHub Giants, representing more than 100,000 GitHub Enterprise developers
coined and socialized the concept of IssueOps within and outside GitHub
helped to grow GitHub's enterprise developer base in DACH from four digits to a six digit number of seats and double-digit million ARR
designed numerous workshops, talks, talk formats (like GitHub Winter- and Summerfest) and keynotes
creator of multiple GitHub projects like awesome runners, zenofgithub and speedup-builds

Enterprise Solutions Engineer

May 2016 – Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Collabnet

3 roles

Director of Engineering

Jul 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos

Office head CollabNet Potsdam
PO for Enterprise SCM themes at CollabNet (Git/Gerrit)
PO for data driven integrations at CollabNet (CCF)
CollabNet Architecture council
Sponsor for development platform/build and methodology services

Development Manager

Promoted

Aug 2010 – Jul 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Responsible to run CollabNet's office in Potsdam
Lead for CollabNet's Git and Gerrit integration
Lead for CollabNet's Jenkins and Hudson plugins
Responsible for technical architecture behind CollabNet's build and test vision
PO for CollabNet's Connector Framework (CCF), an Open Source Framework that integrates various ALM platforms like TeamForge, HP Quality Center/ALM 11, ScrumWorks Pro, MS Team Foundation Server and Rational ClearQuest

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2009 – Aug 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos

Created training material, developer guides, end user documentation and collateral for CollabNet Connector Framework
Gave tech talks on various conferences like HP Software Universe, QualityConf and CollabCon showing CollabNet TeamForge in action with HP Quality Center, Hudson, QTP, Subversion, Mylin and CollabNet Lab Management
Designed collateral for CollabNet's partnership with HP (presented in HPSU keynote) and presented in numerous customer and sales meetings
Lead CCF through various certification processes (like HP Gold Partner, CollabNet Certified Integration)
Implemented web services that expose TeamForge's agile functionality
Helped designing ScrumWorks Pro's Polling based APIs
Technology evaluation and PoC that lead to Subversion Edge's Update Mechanism
API/Integration Point Briefings to CollabNet Integration Partners
Technology Reviews and Assessments of Integration Technologies and ALM Platforms
Various small contributions to CollabNet's Eclipse plugins, Subversion, TeamForge, Scrumworks Pro and Hudson/Jenkins