Karl Nicoll
Software Development Engineer II at Ring
South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKarl Nicoll is a Software Development Engineer II with 17 years’ experience building high-performance C/C++ systems that span embedded robotics to cloud-scale FinTech. Currently at Ring working on the Always Home Camera platform, he previously developed middleware and systems software for Amazon Scout and led gateway integrations for trading protocols like TREP and FIX. Comfortable across the stack, he bridges low-level firmware, ROS-based robotics middleware, and latency-sensitive financial systems with pragmatic engineering. Based in Cambridge, he combines deep systems programming skill with a history of customer-facing integration work and team leadership. An often-understated strength is his ability to move between domains—healthcare web systems early in his career to cutting-edge autonomous robotics—bringing disciplined software engineering to complex, safety- and performance-critical products.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics; Science and English, Mathematics; Science and English at North Kesteven SchoolICT, Physics, Psychology, ICT, Physics, Psychology at North Hykeham Joint Sixth FormBSc (Hons), Computer Programming, BSc (Hons), Computer Programming at Teesside University
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Github contributions (5)
karlnicoll/jekyll-oceanic
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
A minimalist, blue, theme for Jekyll blogs
Contributions:35 commits, 22 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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karlnicoll/minimal-cv
Jun 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
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