Nils is CTO, public speaker, electronics enthusiast and open source aficionado. After a brief passage through the academic world where he researched simulation of distributed systems, he decided to try his luck as an entrepreneur and cofounded Woorank as the CTO in 2011. Woorank is a SaaS product, sold worldwide, allowing digital marketers to monitor the online presence of a brand. By grabbing and calculating millions of data points every day, he developed a passion for automating, scaling and distributing applications at scale. He is passionate about open source communities and started some initiatives around them, namingly techbelgium.io, Docker and AWS meetup groups, etc. In his free time you can find him in the basement tinkering with arduino's, RPi's and the such to automate everything he doesn't want to waste time on.