Niklas TatBackend & Platform EngineerProjects
A selection of my work – production systems, open-source tools and side projects across backend, platform and infrastructure.
Composite GitHub Action for automated version management and release publishing using conventional commits.
Composite GitHub Action for the Helm chart lifecycle — scanning, linting, and OCI registry publishing.
Helm chart monorepo for Kubernetes infrastructure and services.
My personal portfolio – server-side rendered in Rust and a playground for new ideas.
Digital event management and ticketing platform.
OAuth2 authorization service for registering and authenticating users.
Admin bot for TeamSpeak servers: protects designated groups, creates support channels automatically and ships further admin tools.
Team project: a self-built probe rode a weather balloon into the upper stratosphere and captured footage of Earth's curvature.
This portfolio is a Rust server-side rendered site built on Axum and Maud with a typed JSON translation catalogue, dynamically generated OpenGraph cards and a hardened multi-stage Docker image. It is published as a Helm chart whose version stays in lockstep with the binary via semantic-release. The interface is an archipelago of floating low-poly islands rendered with three.js and CC0 models by Kenney – with camera flights, switchable moods and two dogs at play.
Islands surfacing …