Nick combines all the key aspects you want from a great dev - he's exceptionally technically capable, he lives the values and ethos of modern Agile practices, and he never loses sight of the commercial drivers for what is being built and why.
Neal Champion, Delivery Manager, Royal London
- Contact: email nick@nickmeldrum.com
- Location: High Wycombe (Just outside London, near Reading)
Work Highlights
- Lead Engineer for Fixed Income Risk at troweprice.com, Leading the Risk Engineering team at T. Rowe Price to deliver risk analytics insights helping investment risk oversight and portfolio managers to make better risk based decisions.
- Front-end Tech Lead at waitrose.com, forging and leading a front-end tribe across 5 cross functional teams; helping them adopt the latest front-end technologies, better agile practices and api/ microservice design
- Principal developer at planner.royallondon.com, taking on a variety of roles including software architect, technical authority, ScrumMaster, team leader and developer
- Engineer at Microsoft, building msn.co.uk: The UK’s largest web portal at the time
- Wrote HazWasteOnline: A web based rules engine for classifying chemical analysis as hazardous waste. Based on government regulations for the environmental industry
His breadth and depth of knowledge of front end technologies has been priceless in our journey to implement a competitive, responsive and pleasant website.
Pauline Tracy, Architect, Waitrose
Bio
Nick is a software engineer, code craftsman and testing evangelist. He is also a TDD practitioner and trainer; team builder and code leader.
He is currently the Lead Engineer for Fixed Income Risk at T. Rowe Price. Nick has also worked as an independent consultant at Deliverist, providing software engineering and technical consultancy for Fidelity Global Digital Wealth. He has also done a stint at building out low latency FX trading platforms.
Nick focuses on successful execution and decision making based on critical thinking and evidence. He excels at helping startups get to market using lean principles. He also uses that experience to help larger companies with their software engineering and agile transformations.
Nick is currently specialising in Front end React SPAs and Node.js serverless based microservices on AWS.
He has extensive experience in designing and implementing systems, taming complexity. He has spent years employing the latest agile principles and practices to deal with a constantly changing business horizon.
Nick showed both great technical skills and also an awareness of what was best for the business. Certainly someone I learnt a lot from and I would be happy to work with again!
Robert Haley, Consultant, Thoughtworks
Experience overview
- Extensive knowledge of JavaScript both on the Front-end with React and Node.js
- Extensive knowledge of cloud services, having built on both Azure and AWS. Specialising on AWS serverless with good CloudFormation and Terraform knowledge
- Extensive experience of Agile, Scrum, XP, TDD and lean/ Kanban methodologies (Certified ScrumMaster)
- Engineering expertise: OO, SOLID, design patterns, functional programming
- Strong leadership: forging strong teams, aligning people and vision, coaching and mentoring
- Strong architecture/ cloud design: API design, REST, Microservices, SOA, Messaging, Event driven architecture, NoSql
- Over 15 years of developer experience building websites and applications
- Long history of middle-tier/ systems design using C# and the Microsoft stack
A detailed work history and references are available on request.