Danny Nicholas
Technical Principal at Scott Logic
Bath, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDanny Nicholas is a Technical Principal and hands-on software leader based in Bath, UK, with a decade of professional software engineering experience and nearly 20 years of prior telecommunications engineering expertise. He designs and delivers backend Java microservices, data-processing pipelines and API-driven systems, while also contributing front-end features in React and Angular and mobile work with Ionic. At Scott Logic he progressed from Lead Software Developer to Technical Principal after promoting big-data patterns using Kafka and Spark and owning end-to-end Agile delivery. Earlier in his career he was a Chartered Engineer and RF planning/optimisation lead for operators including O2, T-Mobile and Ericsson, routinely meeting demanding network SLAs across major UK networks. He combines deep systems thinking from telecoms with pragmatic software craftsmanship, and has a sustained appetite for researching and trialling emerging technologies. Known for bridging domain expertise and engineering delivery, he brings both managerial experience and technical depth to complex, data-driven projects.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Computing Science, Computing Science at The Open UniversityB.Eng (Hons) - 1st class, Electronics with Computing Science, B.Eng (Hons) - 1st class, Electronics with Computing Science at Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe
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Github Skills (14)
logic9
ai-agent7
jekyll7
asp-net6
javascript6
sql6
spring6
spring-boot6
android5
spark2
big-data1
react1
webpack1
scala1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DannyNicholas/spark-tweet-processor
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 14 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year
data-partnershippartnershipbig-dataspark
DannyNicholas/pet-portraits-web
Jun 2024 - Sep 2025
Contributions:3 reviews, 31 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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