Chris Nicola
Chief Executive Officer at Vendasta
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Nicola is a seasoned technology-driven CEO with 16 years of experience building and scaling digital wealth platforms, currently leading Nicola Wealth’s strategic and innovation agenda from Vancouver. A co-founder and former CTO of WealthBar, he blends deep engineering chops—evident in hands-on contributions to event-sourcing tooling in .NET—with product and operational leadership across roles from CTO to President. He is known for preserving high-touch client relationships while accelerating digital capability, and for applying lean, data-informed product practices to financial services. Chris also mentors Canadian founders, serves on multiple boards including Vendasta, and brings uncommon technical depth for a CEO thanks to an M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and early work on performance-focused open-source tooling.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Applied Math, B.Sc. Applied Math at Queen's University
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Github Skills (32)
net10
snap10
dotnet10
event-sourcing10
snapshots10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
snap-shot10
csharp10
concurrency10
git9
webservice9
multithreading9
git-rebase9
csrf9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
pjvds/ncqrs
Aug 2010 - Aug 2010
Ncqrs Framework - The CQRS Framework for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the `Ncqrs` framework, focusing on event sourcing and snapshotting functionalities within a .NET environment. They addressed issues related to snapshotting intervals and concurrency exceptions in event storage. The user also implemented threading for read and write operations within the NoDB event store, and refactored the event store to use binary files and BSON serialization, improving performance. Furthermore, they added performance tests, showcasing their commitment to the framework's efficiency.
dotnetdddevent-sourcingcqrscqrs-framework
chrisnicola/chrisnicola.github.io
Jan 2015 - Aug 2019
Personal Pages
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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