Nicolas Vega Terrazas
Mexican-German electrical engineer, working in IT for 8 years, 6+ years doing TypeScript/React/Node for a living. Built dashboards, search engines, WYSIWYG editors, accounting tools and more. I work mainly in the renewable energy industry, currently fulltime at Exnaton, helping electricity providers lower prices for customers invested in renewables. Cofounded and CTO'ed GridLink, saving costs for the construction of renewable energy projects.
Employment
Delivery engineer
·Dec 1, 2024 - today·Berlin, DeutschlandHelping electricity providers lower prices for consumers invested in renewable energy.
- Golang
- Oauth2 flows
- Kubernetes
- Helm-charts (GitOps)
- Web components
- React
- Typescript
- Node.js
- Python
Senior fullstack developer
·Jul 1, 2022 - Nov 30, 2024·Berlin, DeutschlandMaintaining and expanding a content management system (CMS) used for publishing articles for BILD and WELT newspapers.
- Node.js
- Typescript
- React
- Graphql
- TRPC
- Kubernetes
- Helm-charts (GitOps)
- Web components
Co-founder and CTO
·Jul 1, 2022 - Jul 12, 2025·Berlin, DeutschlandDeveloping a platform to save costs for the construction of renewable energy projects.
- Node.js
- Typescript
- TRPC
- Vercel
- React
Fullstack developer
·Oct 1, 2019 - Jun 30, 2022·Berlin, DeutschlandAs a fullstack developer and frontend team lead, developed a search engine and a dashboard used for crisis analysis and prevention.
- Node.js
- Typescript
- Openapi
- React
- Design systems
- NPM Libraries
- Java Spring Boot
Backend developer
·Jan 31, 2018 - Sep 30, 2019·Berlin, DeutschlandApplication for quotations of logistic services.
- Java Spring Boot
- Python
- CI/CD
- Raspberry pie
- C
- Postgresql
Education
Electrical engineering
·Dec 31, 2014 - Dec 31, 2018·Bachelor·Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft BerlinLanguages
Skills
Awards
Second Place - Google's Hackathon
·Feb 10, 2024·Google and Axel Springer National Media & Tech GmbH & Co. KGSecond 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.
First Place - Process Optimisation Category
·Feb 18, 2023·Axel Springer company hackathonProcess 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.