Nicolas Bettenburg
Finding new ways to power AI-native companies and making human-agent teams hyper-productive. Software engineering research since 2005.
I'm the founder and CEO of KUY.io, a custom software product agency and consultancy. I've spent the last 20 years making software development teams more productive: as a CTO at tech startups, as a consultant at organizations and government, and by building in-house tools to make our work at KUY.io more efficient. I write about this work on this blog.
Right now I'm focused on making human-agent teams actually work. The Ai Software Engineering Kit (AiSE) teaches coding agents a spec-driven software engineering process that plugs into Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and more. Exponential is a git-native issue tracker purpose-built for teams where humans and agents share the backlog. And AnyMCP turns any folder of files and scripts into a live MCP service for AI agents.
Selected Work
- 2026Created Exponential and AnyMCP — Exponential is a git-native issue tracker and product engineering tool built for human-agent teams. AnyMCP is an open-source platform that turns any folder of files and scripts into a live MCP service for AI agents.
- 2025Created AiSE Kit — The Ai Software Engineering Kit teaches coding agents a spec-driven process: the agent decomposes problems, proposes specifications for human review, and plugs natively into the world's most used coding agents.
- 2024Created Codex, Flux, and Citadel — A suite of developer infrastructure products. Codex is a git hosting platform, Flux is an artifact repository for build outputs and packages, and Citadel is a secure shell server for remote access and tunneling.
- 2023Created Wave CI and Meera — Wave CI is a continuous integration and deployment platform with first-class container support. Meera is a project tracking and management tool designed for engineering teams.
- 2021Created Konnect — Konnect is a self-hosted VPN server for secure networking, built for teams that need simple, reliable private connectivity to their clouds without trusting a third party.
- 2019Joined Quantropi as CTO — Led engineering at Quantropi, a quantum-secure cryptography startup developing post-quantum encryption and key distribution technology.
- 2018Founded KUY.io — A custom software product agency and consultancy helping startups and enterprises build, ship, and scale software products.
- 2016Joined inBay Technologies as CTO — Led engineering for an identity and passwordless authentication platform serving enterprise and government clients.
- 2014Completed PhD — Doctoral research at the Software Intelligence and Analysis Lab at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. Focused on mining software repositories and improving developer productivity through data-driven insights.
- 2012Internship at Microsoft Research — Research internship working on large-scale empirical software engineering and developer tools.
- 2006Completed MSc Computer Science — Master's degree at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, with a focus on software engineering and programming languages.
- 2004Completed BSc Computer Science — Bachelor's degree at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany.
Research
My research focuses on mining software repositories, developer productivity, and data-driven software engineering. Publications and citation metrics are available on Google Scholar.
Patents
Granted and pending patents are listed on Google Patents.
Talks and Mentions
Presentations and slide decks are available on SlideShare.
Get in Touch
Drop me a line at nicbet@gmail.com.