Senior engineers, on the work
No hand-offs to junior teams behind the scenes. The engineers you meet are the engineers who write the code.
Independent IT studio · Est. engineering practice
Software built
quietly, systems
that stay useful.
Nice & Simple GmbH is a small IT company focused on software engineering, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and technology consulting. We work with organisations that would rather ship a well-considered system than a loud one.
§ 01 — The company
A studio, not a factory.
We build software the way careful teams have always built things: slowly enough to understand the problem, quickly enough to prove the solution.
Nice & Simple GmbH operates as an independent engineering practice. Our clients bring us domain knowledge, product ambition, and constraints; we bring the disciplines required to translate those into working systems — architecture, delivery, operations, and long-term maintenance.
We are deliberately small. Every engagement is staffed by senior engineers who write code, make decisions, and remain accountable through delivery.
§ 02 — Practice
Core IT capabilities
Four disciplines, deeply overlapping, deployed as a single team.
- 01
Engineering
Custom software, web applications, APIs, and backend systems designed for the specific operational context of each client.
- 02
Infrastructure
Cloud architecture, container platforms, environments, and CI/CD pipelines that are legible to the teams who inherit them.
- 03
Consulting
Architectural review, technology strategy, and pragmatic modernisation of systems that have grown beyond their original design.
- 04
Security
Cybersecurity consulting and data protection practices woven into engineering, not bolted on as an afterthought.
§ 03 — Software development
Code we would be comfortable inheriting.
Custom applications, internal tools, and product platforms — written in the languages and frameworks that fit the problem rather than the fashion. We favour boring choices where boring works, and modern approaches where they meaningfully reduce risk.
Every project ships with tests, observable behaviour, and documentation that serves the next engineer as well as it serves the current one.
§ 04 — Consulting
Good consulting is mostly the willingness to sit with a difficult problem until it stops being difficult, and then to write down what changed.
We are brought in when a technology decision matters and the internal team wants an informed second view — not a slide deck.
Engagements are scoped tightly, with clear artifacts: an architecture review, a migration plan, a security posture assessment, a build-versus-buy analysis.
We remain available afterwards, but the objective is always the same: leave the client's team more capable than we found them.
§ 05 — Cloud & infrastructure
Infrastructure that reads like prose.
We design cloud environments that describe themselves — infrastructure as code, explicit dependencies, and environments that new engineers can navigate without a tour.
Container platforms, serverless workloads, managed databases, and hybrid setups are chosen for the concrete demands of the application, not for their category.
Operations remain a first-class concern: cost, resilience, and the ability to recover a system at three in the morning are all part of the same design.
§ 06 — Cybersecurity & data
Security is a property of the system, not a checklist attached to it.
We treat cybersecurity and data protection as engineering concerns. Threat modelling, secure defaults, sensible cryptography, careful data handling, and auditable access controls are built into the design of every system we deliver.
For existing platforms we perform security reviews, help teams remediate identified risks, and support the operational routines that keep those systems defensible over time.
§ 07 — Delivery
How work moves through the studio
A predictable shape, adjusted for the specifics of each engagement.
- Step 01
Listen
We spend the first days understanding the domain, the constraints, and the people who will live with the result.
- Step 02
Frame
We agree on the shape of the problem, the shape of the solution, and the trade-offs we are choosing on purpose.
- Step 03
Build
We work in short, reviewable increments. Every increment is deployable, and every deployment can be undone.
- Step 04
Hand off
We leave with documentation, tests, and the operational context the client's team needs to keep going without us.
§ 08 — Industries
Contexts where careful software matters.
We work with organisations whose operations depend on their software behaving correctly under load, over time, and in the presence of change.
- Financial technology
- Transactional systems, back-office platforms, integrations with regulated providers.
- Healthcare & life sciences
- Clinical and operational tools with strict data-handling requirements.
- Manufacturing & logistics
- Systems that connect physical processes to digital workflows.
- Public sector & utilities
- Long-lived platforms that must remain maintainable across administrations.
- Professional services
- Internal tools that quietly compound the productivity of expert teams.
§ 09 — Engineering principles
The rules we don't argue about.
- /01Explicit is better than implicit. Systems should describe themselves.
- /02Simple wins whenever it can. Complexity must be earned.
- /03Correctness is a form of respect for the people who use the system.
- /04Operability is part of the product, not a downstream concern.
- /05Documentation is written for the engineer we haven't met yet.
§ 10 — Working together
Reasons clients choose Nice & Simple GmbH.
A fixed team, not a fluctuating one
Continuity matters. The team that starts an engagement is the team that finishes it.
Honest scope
We would rather decline work that doesn't fit than take it and struggle. This is unusual and, in our experience, welcome.
Clear artefacts
Every engagement produces something concrete: code, documentation, a decision record, a working system.
Long-term thinking
We build with the assumption that someone else will maintain this in three years. Usually it is us.
Discretion
Our clients rarely ask us to publicise the work. We respect that entirely.
§ 11 — Get in touch
A short note is usually enough.
We prefer email. Describe the problem in your own words; we will read it, consider whether we are the right team, and reply candidly.
- Company
- Nice & Simple GmbH
- Website
- niceandsimplegroup.com
- lauraschmidt10120w@gmail.com