Nick Burch
Director Of Engineering at Saible
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Burch is a seasoned software engineering leader and open-source advocate, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Saible in Oxford. With a track record spanning CTO roles at Quanticate and extensive contributions to open source through the Apache Software Foundation, he blends hands-on development with strategic program management and mentorship. He champions open development and agile practices to solve business needs, focusing on introducing open source and agile methodologies to the pharmaceutical sector while maintaining auditability and compliance. His GitHub work demonstrates breadth across front-end and back-end domains—from enhancing Wagtail CMS user notifications to expanding keyboard-layout visualizations in ShortcutMapper, reflecting a rare breadth of practical coding and system integration. Nick's technical roots go back to senior development and systems administration roles, and he holds an MChem in Chemistry from the University of Oxford, a combination that informs his interest in data-intensive, compliant software solutions in life sciences.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MChem, Chemistry, MChem, Chemistry at University of Oxford
French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
cms10
python10
django10
databases10
keyboard-layout10
wagtail10
html10
django210
database10
testing9
javascript9
authentication9
forms9
user-authentication9
javascripts9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wagtail/wagtail
Jun 2014 - Jun 2022
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 87 commits, 22 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the Wagtail CMS backend, focusing on user notification preferences and page management features. They implemented a UserProfile model, notification preferences form, and view, alongside adding functionality to check user preferences before sending notifications. The contributions include enhancements to email templates and test suites for these features. Additionally, the user made adjustments to the site model and routing, enabling multiple sites with different ports.
cmsmanagement-systempythondjangouser-experience
waldobronchart/ShortcutMapper
May 2014 - Jun 2014
A visual keyboard shortcuts explorer for popular applications.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 11 days
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the visual representation of keyboard layouts within the "shortcutmapper" repository. They added new keyboard layouts for various Dvorak configurations (US and UK) across different operating systems (Mac, Windows, Linux). These contributions involved creating HTML files that define the visual layout of the keys and integrating them into the existing keyboard selector functionality. The user also updated the `keyboards.js` file to enable these new layouts within the application.
keyboard-shortcutskeyboardkeyboard-layoutshortcutsexplorer
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