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NicmeisteR

Nicolaas Nel

Lead Software Engineer

Schagen, North Holland • 9+ years of experience

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> Passionate and innovative Lead Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience. Skilled in Angular, TypeScript, micro-frontend architecture, and modern front-end engineering.

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Experience

Lead Software Engineer

NiCE

March 2025 - Present

Leading the full greenfield development of ComplianCentral (codename Valhalla) — an enterprise compliance platform built on Angular 21 with Native Federation micro-frontend architecture. Responsible for all technical decisions, system architecture, developer experience, and cross-team coordination between the platform team and product team.

Angular 21Native FederationSignalsDaisyUI+4 more

Senior Software Engineer

NiCE

December 2022 - February 2025

Maintained, modernized and improved the architecture of NTR-X and implemented new product features.

Angular 20+NgRxRxJSJest+2 more

Lead Front End Product Developer

InfoSlips

March 2020 - November 2022

Lead Product Developer responsible for the architecture and development of two primary products.

Angular 12+Next.jsReact.jsNgRx+3 more

Full Stack Software Engineer

InfoSlips

January 2018 - March 2020

Managed data processing and developed processors/services using C#. Created front-end applications on the Product team.

Angular 8+React.jsAngularJS.Net Core 3+1 more

Support / Web Developer

InfoSlips

January 2018 - March 2018

Helpdesk support and web development with strong client relations focus.

Angular 4+AngularJS.Net Core 2XSLT

Freelance Web Developer

NicmeisteR

January 2017 - January 2018

Freelance Web Development for small businesses in South Africa.

AngularJSHTML5

Featured Projects

~/projects/echoneko

EchoNeko

Your friendly signal cat. Send push notifications from any script or server, and EchoNeko will catch, log, and keep them safe.

FlutterDartPush Notifications

~/projects/halo-south-africa

Halo South Africa

Community platform for Halo players. Track stats, join monthly leaderboards, and unite the local community.

AngularFirebaseNode.js

Visit

~/projects/haloopenapi

HaloOpenAPI

Fully reverse engineered Xbox & Halo game APIs to generate authentication tokens and access internal APIs.

Node.jsRESTReverse Engineering

Source

~/projects/halo-match-stats

Halo Match Stats

Node.js tool to aggregate league stats and generate historical metrics for competitive Halo.

Node.jsData ProcessingAPIs

Source

~/projects/halostatsbot

HaloStatsBot

Automated Twitter bot that delivers Halo player stats on demand.

Node.jsTwitter APIAutomation

Source

Tech Stack

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptC#HTML5SCSSCSS3Dart

Frameworks

Angular 20+React.jsNext.jsTailwindCSS.Net CoreNode.jsFlutter

Libraries

NgRxRxJSJestCypressGraphQLApolloREST

Tools

GitGitHubGitLabCI/CDJiraFigmaStorybook

Platforms

FirebaseNode.jsVercelDigital OceanMSSQL

Practices

Agile/ScrumSOLIDResponsive DesignSPAMonorepoMicro-frontends

About

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Originally from Pretoria, South Africa, now based in the Netherlands. I lead the greenfield development of an enterprise compliance platform at NiCE - driving architecture, developer experience, and cross-team collaboration. Outside of work I'm an aspiring bodybuilder chasing a heavier bench press.

28 years old

Schagen, North Holland

Competitive Halo Player

Kawasaki ZX10R Rider

Bench PR: 150 kg

Cat Dad (Amy + Miku)

$ echo $INTERESTS

["gaming", "streaming", "motorbikes", "bodybuilding", "cats", "anime", "sushi", "music"]

$ echo $LANGUAGES

English (Native), Afrikaans (Native), Dutch (Basic)

Recommendations

"I'm glad to be working with Nico in our UI/UX development team. His strong technical skills, from architecting solutions to implementing clean and scalable UI components, along with his clear communication and deep understanding of user-centric design, make a big difference in our daily work. He consistently delivers clean and thoughtful solutions, and he's always open, supportive, and ready to help."

Yaroslav Berezhnyi

QA Engineer | Test Automation Specialist at NiCE

November 2025

"I worked with Nico on the NTR-X software suite for NiCE Alkmaar. He has brought fresh ideas and innovation to the product. If you need an energetic and enthusiastic colleague: go to Nico."

Rob Kiebert

Lecturer / Researcher Software Engineering

December 2023

"Nico has an aptitude for new technology and the tenacity to succeed in mastering most of it. He is a great team player and a hard worker."

Jaco De Villiers

CTO of InfoSlips

January 2023

"During his tenure with InfoSlips, Nico has been an integral part of our company. His unique skillset has aided in developing our software platform, UI design and development. His coding has always been excellent and his innovative input has enabled InfoSlips to offer a superior product."

Gary Clifford

CEO at InfoSlips SA

September 2022

"He's always eager to learn something new. He shows initiative by building tools and improving processes on top of all his work load, and he's more than capable to take on a task that's outside of his expertise, adapt, learn and master that area. I would gladly work with Nico again."

MJ Meyer

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

January 2021

"Nico will go on to do great things. I really do believe this. Capable, dedicated, innovative and willing to do whatever is necessary to get done when you need it done."

Donovan van der Linde

Chief Technologist, WeavaCare

June 2020

Media & Articles

DEV

Node-Essentials V2

Updated my first and only NPM package to make it more useful for the community.

DEV

GraphQL-NodeJS

Deep dive into GraphQL - a query language for APIs that lets you ask for exactly what you need.

INT

ZombieGamer Feature

Profiled as a Halo player keeping the community alive with LAN events, tournaments, and streams.

INT

Gevaaalik Interview

Featured as part of Team Cyanide in the Halo SA competitive scene.