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
Bio
Nick is a software engineer, code craftsman and testing evangelist. He is also a TDD practitioner and trainer; team builder and code leader. Learn more about his skills and experience by reading his online cv (résumé).
Nick is currently specialising in Front end React SPAs and Node.js serverless based microservices on AWS.
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’s knowledge of development best practices is second to none, and as dev lead he introduced many improvements to the working practices at Waitrose, these included a comprehensive testing approach, continuous integration, build and release pipelines and much more.
Paul Brownsmith, Front end Developer, Waitrose
Recent articles
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Problem solving and priorities
published: 2 February 2010Learning when NOT to solve the problem
So yesterday I blogged about a problem we had with users trying to save images off the GIS part of our site. We have a workaround now which will work fine.
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Problem saving images as non-bmp with Internet Explorer
published: 1 February 2010Oh 3rd party components and proprietary code
The problem
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Moved to SubText
published: 28 January 2010Moved my blog from WordPress to SubText
So I’ve moved my blog to my own hosted subtext domain. This was one of the least painful “setting up an OSS project on a shared host” experiences I’ve had. My previous experiences include:
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Technical Debt and ASP.Net Web Forms
published: 22 January 2010Go fast now or go fast later?
An InfoQ article on Technical Debt quoted Ward Cunningham’s original coining of the phrase “technical debt” that I will print out again here.
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Hard Drive Speeds
published: 19 January 2010The bottleneck is the rotating disks!
So my project to get a hosted subtext blog up and running hit a snag over the weekend because once again I had Hard Drive problems. Once again it was all my own fault of course…