Dylan Nicholson
Senior Software Developer at archTIS
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
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Top SchoolDylan Nicholson is a Senior Software Developer with three decades in IT and over a decade focused on architecting and delivering secure, cloud-backed SaaS systems across finance, payments and document security. He is a pragmatic full-stack engineer fluent in C#/.NET (including .NET Core), Java and Node.js, with hands-on experience in Azure and AWS, DevOps pipelines, and modern front-end stacks like React and TypeScript. Dylan has led technical teams and mentoring efforts for the last ten years, driving rewrites and API-first designs that improved interoperability with third-party services and hardened cryptographic and authentication flows. He contributes to notable open-source projects such as MuseScore, where he has fixed crash and clipboard bugs and implemented selection features, showing an attention to both core functionality and UX edge cases. Based in Melbourne, he combines deep backend systems knowledge with practical cloud deployment and integration expertise, often surfacing subtle interoperability and security issues before they reach production.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
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Github Skills (15)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
music-notation9
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cpp8
musicxml7
windows6
active-directory6
cuesheet6
sharepoint6
previews6
javascript6
stylesheets6
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
musescore/MuseScore
May 2021 - May 2022
MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:522 reviews, 49 commits, 133 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily focused on improving the MuseScore application's core functionality. Their contributions included implementing the "Lasso list selection", fixing persistent crashes upon quitting, and resolving an issue where formatting was lost during copy/paste operations. They also addressed several other bugs, including those related to clipboard operations and page size behavior.
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wizofaus/MuseScore
May 2021 - Oct 2024
MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!
Contributions:2 PRs, 348 pushes, 115 branches in 3 years 5 months
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