John Nicholas
Founder at Laminar Methods
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Nicholas is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with over two decades of industry experience and 11 years in senior roles, blending hands-on development with strategic architecture across startups and firms like Deloitte Digital. He builds pragmatic, high-velocity teams and systems—shipping cloud-native, event-driven platforms and consumer-facing React/Node products deployed on Kubernetes. Known for rapid hypothesis-driven delivery, he has repeatedly turned early pivots into live, data-rich products and accelerated public sector and e-commerce projects. Based in England, he champions XP/TDD, product-led engineering and mentoring, often bridging technical delivery with business strategy. Less obvious: he started as a self-employed developer and quantity surveyor, giving him rare domain empathy for operational constraints and real-world reliability trade-offs.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
2:2 Philosophy, 2:2 Philosophy at MMU
Stackoverflow
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196answers
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Github Skills (107)
actor10
concurrency10
distributed-programming10
reactive10
dotnet10
akka10
shell9
actor-framework9
actor-model9
orleans9
sdk8
linux8
azure-webjobs-sdk8
modular8
csharp8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
MrTortoise/MrTortoise.github.io
Feb 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 216 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
MrTortoise/kite
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
An interactive visualization tool for graph theory:
Contributions:1 push in 1 year 4 months
interactive-visualizationeulergraphstheorycombinatorics
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