James Nicol
Software Engineer at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Nicol is a backend-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently building scalable services at Canva from Sydney. He brings a solid Computer Engineering foundation from UNSW and a track record across diverse engineering contexts—from embedded C firmware for musical hardware to web dashboards and data visualizations at Honeywell. Comfortable working end-to-end with databases and backend systems, James has progressed from junior roles to impactful engineering work at a high-growth product company. He pairs pragmatic problem-solving with attention to signal quality and user-facing tooling, an inclination rooted in early hardware and simulation projects that still informs his approach to reliable systems.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at UNSW AustraliaHigher School Certificate, ATAR 88.4, Higher School Certificate, ATAR 88.4 at St. Phillip's Christian College
Github Skills (14)
heroku10
nodejs10
image-resizing10
on-the-fly10
graphicsmagick10
right-to-left4
styles4
atomic4
css3
resizer2
flexbox2
rails1
image-resizer1
ruby1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jimmynicol/image-resizer
Aug 2013 - Oct 2015
On-the-fly image resizing using Node.js and GraphicsMagick. Heroku Ready!
Contributions:195 commits, 15 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 1 month
graphicsmagickherokuimage-resizingnode-json-the-fly
jimmynicol/route-viewer
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 month
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