Nicolas Vega Terrazas
Software developer
Mexican-German electrical engineer, working in IT for 10 years, 8+ years doing TypeScript/React/Node for a living, now also Rust. Built dashboards, search engines, WYSIWYG editors, trading systems and more. I work mainly in the renewable energy industry, currently fulltime at Terra One, building the systems that trade grid-scale batteries on European power markets. Cofounded and CTO'ed GridLink, saving costs for the construction of renewable energy projects.
Work
Building the systems that trade grid-scale batteries on European short-term power markets (intraday and ancillary services). Core contributor to the Rust trading engine, focused on safe rollouts and latency. Built AI agents that investigate production incidents autonomously, with least-privilege access to the clusters. Run the Kubernetes GitOps setup and shipped the fleet operations dashboard fullstack in Next.js/TypeScript.
Helping electricity providers lower prices for consumers invested in renewable energy.
Maintaining and expanding a content management system (CMS) used for publishing articles for BILD and WELT newspapers.
Developing a platform to save costs for the construction of renewable energy projects.
As a fullstack developer and frontend team lead, developed a search engine and a dashboard used for crisis analysis and prevention.
Application for quotations of logistic services.
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Second place in Google's hackathon. Developed a moderation tool for comments section in the Welt premium platform. Used React, Node.js, and Google's AI - API.
Process optimisation category. Integrated OpenAI's LLMs into Axel Springer's content management system using Slate.js and Node.js for various use cases like title generation and auto-completion. Part of the challenge was to collaborate with a team in another section of the company that had already developed a backend application that enhanced OpenAI's API with a vector database based on our own content.