ABOUT
Hi! I'm Nick!
I’m a travelling developer in search of problems to fix. I like to use my wide range of skills to build products that are stable, run fast, and are easy to maintain
What do I do?
I’m primarily a backend developer with a wide range of skills. I’m an expert in all things Python, but dabble in all range of languages to make sure I’m up to date on the latest trends. I like to focus on software engineering and project management, to give developers clear goals and allow customers to understand what they’re paying for.
What am I interested in?
Finance
Automation
Travel
Machine Learning
PROJECTS
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WORK
Worked on the outbound email team, who's product stops people from accidentally sending emails to the wrong people.
- Working on scaling from 20M emails processed per day to 1B emails per day.
- Significantly improved codebase by adding hundreds of python types to our projects.
Worked on integrating new data streams and improving internal tools.
- Sped up data aquisition 3x by switching to asynchronous downloading techniques.
- Implemented ingestion of new data streams.
Built a scalable web-scraping solution to harvest data from company registries.
- Sped up data retreival from third-parties 5x by streamlining and optimising web-scraping techniques.
- Re-wrote legacy code to be cleaner and more performant.
- Re-designed the software architecture to allow for scaling.
Helped move to cloud solutions and run training for employees.
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