Niels Laier Jensen

Creative Developer

Profile

Bachelor's student in Software Development who builds the whole stack - frontend, backend, and the homelab it all runs on. I care about the business context as much as the code: shipping real, self-hosted things, and using AI to move fast without losing the thread.

Projects

Relay Rust · Axum · Postgres · SeaORM

A backend built from scratch: OAuth + Redis sessions, an admin/audit panel, first-party analytics, and a small AI gateway.

AI Forum Astro · Redis sessions

A community/forum frontend wired to the Relay backend.

Homelab k3s · Cloudflare Tunnel · Docker

The whole stack self-hosted on a laptop, exposed through a Cloudflare Tunnel.

Chirp - Twitter Clone ASP.NET Core · Razor Pages · EF Core · SQLite · Azure

Full-stack social app with user auth, posting, and following. Server-rendered with Razor Pages, Identity for authorisation, deployed to Azure.

Interactive Denmark Map Java · Gradle · OpenStreetMap

Route planner finding optimal paths across Denmark from real OpenStreetMap data - Dijkstra / A* over tree-structured geographic data.

Skills

Frontend
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Astro
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Razor Pages
Backend
  • Rust (Axum)
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • C# (.NET / ASP.NET Core)
  • Java
  • Go
  • Python
Data
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • SQLite
  • DuckDB
  • SeaORM
  • Entity Framework Core
Cloud & DevOps
  • Docker
  • k3s
  • Cloudflare Tunnel
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • GitHub Actions
  • Git
Data & AI
  • OpenAI API
  • LLM integration
  • Prompt engineering
  • Power BI
  • Google Looker
  • GitHub Copilot
Practices
  • REST APIs
  • Agile / Scrum
  • TDD
  • Figma
  • LaTeX

Education

BSc, Software Development · IT University of Copenhagen In progress

Experience

Game Tester & Reviewer · Freelance
  • Tested and reviewed games; feedback on balance, bugs, and feel.

Beyond code

  • Deadlock - High Eternus, top 100 on multiple heroes
  • Ex-semi-pro CS:GO
  • Cycling