About me
Niklas Tat
Programming has been with me for as long as I can remember – first out of curiosity, now as my profession. For more than ten years I have been building backend systems and keeping them running reliably: designing services, breaking monoliths into microservices, automating deployments and setting up infrastructure that lets teams ship quickly and safely.
- Security by design – from the architecture to the pipeline
- Pragmatic and analytical: understand first, then build
- Automation over manual work – recurring tasks end up in code
- At home in distributed teams and productive remote work
My Approach
Good systems are easy to operate. That is why I think about backend and platform together: clean code, automated tests and deployments, monitoring with meaningful alerting – and an architecture that grows with the requirements.
Maintainable code
Clear architecture, automated tests and documentation that is still accurate a year from now.
Performance & scale
Systems that use resources efficiently and grow with increasing load.
Reliable operations
Redundancy, monitoring and alerting so incidents surface before users notice them.
Automation
Recurring workflows as code – from CI/CD and releases to infrastructure.
Away from the keyboard
I recharge outdoors with my dogs Cardea and Ares, then come back with a clear head to new tools, methods and side projects.