Niels works as a Happiness Engineer for Automattic where he provides support for WordPress.com customers. Outside work he organises WordCamps and WordPress Meetups both in Europe and Asia.

After his study in computer science in Germany, he moved to the Netherlands, where he worked for several companies as a web developer and a business analyst. Since mid-2014 he’s been travelling through South-East Asia where he fights bugs between palm trees and rice fields.