About me
Engineering leader and software architect.
Bio
I'm Nicklas K. Frank, an engineering leader with 15+ years of building things on the web. I started in online communities (one grew to about a million monthly active users) and went on to build e-commerce and media systems for some of Denmark's largest brands. Right now I'm Chief Lead Engineer at Rekom Group, where we're building a guest-experience platform for 100+ venues.
My career has moved from developer to architect to product engineering leader, through Hobbii, Aller Media, Bonnier Publications, and Mybanker. Much of that work has involved changing existing systems while readers, editors, or shoppers continue to use them.
Experience
Chief Lead Engineer
Rekom Group A/S2026 – PresentI'm building a hospitality platform that connects ticketing, reservations, and loyalty through a single guest profile. We're starting with Rekom's 100+ venues, with plans to make the platform available more widely in hospitality.
Lead Backend Developer → Lead Software Architect → Engineering Manager
Hobbii2022 – 2026I stabilized an unreliable backend within six months and rolled out a repeatable development process across a 28-developer team. As Lead Software Architect, I broke a large monolith into domain-driven services. That foundation made a single-cutover Shopify migration possible, something previously considered impossible. I finished as Engineering Manager leading the Crafter & Designer product team.
Web Developer
Mybanker2020 – 2022I developed and maintained a financial services platform with Laravel. I integrated external banking APIs and optimized MySQL performance, improving the speed and reliability of customer-facing features.
Senior Web Developer
Aller Media2018 – 2020I maintained 10+ brand sites (Se og Hør, Femina, Billedbladet) while migrating them from Drupal to Laravel-based services. I cut Se og Hør load times from 15 seconds to 2 by changing content and ad handling, and built editor-facing CMS tools used across multiple brands.
Web Developer → Senior Web Developer
Bonnier Publications2015 – 2018I built a service-oriented Laravel architecture used across hundreds of applications, plus a publishing system that let editors reuse content across brands and countries. I led site migrations (National Geographic, Bo Bedre, Gør Det Selv) and cut migration time from 8 months to 12 weeks for sites with hundreds of thousands of articles, without losing SEO.
Skills & technologies
Backend
- PHP / Laravel
- Node.js
- MySQL / PostgreSQL
- Redis
Frontend
- React / Next.js
- Vue.js
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- HTML5 / CSS3
Architecture & DevOps
- System Design
- Docker / Kubernetes
- AWS / Cloud Infrastructure
- CI/CD Pipelines
Leadership
- Team Mentoring
- Agile / Scrum
- Technical Strategy
- Code Review & QA
I also take on consulting and development work. You can read about my services or see more detail in these project write-ups.