Maurice Nicholson
Director at UBS
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMaurice Nicholson is a Director-level software engineer with over 16 years in investment banking, currently modernising UBS’s FX Trading React UI portfolio and developer tooling. He spent a decade at J.P. Morgan shaping the multi-award-winning Execute SDP for FX and Rates and for the last 6+ years has focused exclusively on Orders and Order Management Systems. Maurice blends hands-on technical work with leadership, driving measurable team productivity gains and insisting on simple, maintainable, tested code. He is performance-obsessed and known for an eye for detail, routinely shipping user-loved, high-performance client-facing applications. An active open-source contributor, he has improved Rust-based JavaScript tooling (oxc) with linter/diagnostic fixes for tricky JSX and snapshot reporting enhancements. Trained in both computer science and classical music, he brings a disciplined, creative approach to complex engineering problems.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 BSc Computer Science and Music Dual Honours, 2:1 BSc Computer Science and Music Dual Honours at Keele UniversityClassical Guitar Music, Classical Guitar Music at ABRSM
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
compiler-compiler10
linter10
compiler10
rust10
diagnostics10
testing9
debug9
parserator9
debugging9
typescript9
parser9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
react8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
oxc-project/oxc
Sep 2023 - Feb 2024
⚓ A collection of JavaScript tools written in Rust.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer (focus on Linter/Compiler Development)
Full-stack Developer (focus on Linter/Compiler Development)Contributions:2 reviews, 8 PRs, 9 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Maurice primarily contributed to the `oxc-project/oxc` repository by fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the linter. These fixes focused on handling edge cases in React's JSX key validation, array expressions, and ternary operations within the linter rules. In addition to bug fixes, the user improved the diagnostic reporting, specifically the source line and column numbers in the graphical reporter for better user experience. The user also updated the project to use its own graphical reporter for test snapshots.
compilerjavascriptlinterminifierparser
maurice/yay-machine
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
The State Machine with more YAY!
Contributions:14 releases, 266 PRs, 347 pushes in 1 year 2 months
state-machinestypescriptzero-dependency
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