Nico Behm
Computer Engineer - full-stack web developer

Computer Engineer with 15+ years of experience building end-to-end digital products, from modern, accessible web interfaces to microservices and distributed API platforms. Proven track record across international teams solving service integration, data interoperability, and system modernization challenges.
I deliver value by pairing solid engineering practices (performance, observability, security, automated testing, and Clean Code) with AI agent workflows to build robust, maintainable software at high velocity.
Core Tech & Expertise
TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, React / Next.js, Vue, PHP (Laravel, CodeIgniter, WordPress), Python (FastAPI).
API Gateways (APISIX), AI Agent Orchestration (Claude, Codex, Gemini), OpenAPI, custom skill automation.
SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server), NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis), ORMs (Eloquent, Doctrine, Prisma), RESTful APIs, Mirth Connect, HL7, SNOMED CT.
Tailwind CSS, Vitest / Jest, PHPUnit, Git, Docker, CI/CD.
TDD, SOLID, Clean Code, design patterns (MVC, DDD), agile methodologies.
Skills
Backend
- PHP / Laravel
- Node.js / Express
- MySQL / SQL Server
- Python / FastAPI
Frontend
- JavaScript
- React / Next.js
- TypeScript
- Vue
AI
- AI Engineering & Agent Orchestration
- Claude / Codex / Gemini
Platform
- Gateway APISIX
- Linux server administration
- HL7 / healthcare interoperability
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions / Tekton / Jenkins)
- Observability & Product Analytics
Tooling
- Testing (Jest / PHPUnit / Vitest)
- Tailwind CSS
- Git
Featured projects
End-to-end design and implementation of Freepik/Magnific's public API platform: multimodal AI catalog (image, video, audio, upscale, and editing), public product landings (/api, /api/image-generation, /api/image-upscaler), API key management and analytics dashboards (Next.js & PHP with DDD), OpenAPI architecture, asynchronous FastAPI server, APISIX gateway, and AI agents.
- AI models served
- 40+
- Catalog endpoints
- 350+
- Pipeline phases
- 3
Specialized AI agent system developed within Freepik/Magnific’s API platform that automates the onboarding and synchronization of new models: from OpenAPI specification to FastAPI implementation, APISIX gateway, public documentation, and interactive playground.
- Artifacts generated per service
- 6
Interactive console to try Freepik/Magnific API models from the browser: forms generated from the OpenAPI spec and validated with Zod, real execution with polling, per-output viewers (image, video, audio, before/after), per-model examples and built-in API key management.





