Mike Nolan
Digital Public Goods (DPG) Software Architect Specialist For Nature And Climate
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMike Nolan is a software architect and civic-minded open source engineer with 13 years of experience building web and data-driven systems for humanitarian, research, and public-interest organisations. Currently serving as a Digital Public Goods Software Architect for Nature and Climate at UNDP, he blends full‑stack engineering with policy-aware open source strategy shaped by prior roles at RIT, UNICEF, and the International Rescue Committee. A prolific contributor to Mozilla projects—adding security and accessibility rules to the widely used addons-linter and improving addons-server UI and review workflows—he pairs hands-on coding with community stewardship. He co-founded the Federation of Humanitarian Technologists and has led projects that supported COVID response and volunteer management, reflecting a pattern of shipping practical tools under real-world constraints. Based in Exeter and a self-described civic hacker and motorcycle fanatic, he brings a rare mix of technical depth, open collaboration experience, and field-focused impact.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Professional Studies - Political Economy of Science and Technology, Master of Science - MS, Professional Studies - Political Economy of Science and Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (16)
accessibility10
html10
css10
javascript10
webextension10
eslint10
front-end-development10
testing9
cli9
template-engine9
django9
chai9
templater9
nodejs8
back-end-development8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/addons-linter
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
🔍 Firefox Add-ons linter, written in JavaScript. 👁
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 23 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the add-ons linter project by implementing new rules for JavaScript code analysis and improving existing functionalities. They refactored code, creating helper functions, and introduced a new rule to validate the arguments passed to `setTimeout` and `setInterval`. Furthermore, the user added rules to address deprecated entities and to restrict certain functionalities within specific files, improving overall extension security and functionality.
firefox-addonjavascriptlinterweb-extensionscli
mozilla/addons-server
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016
🕶 addons.mozilla.org Django app and API 🎉
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:61 commits, 53 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily worked on improving the user interface and accessibility aspects of the addons-server repository. Their contributions include modifying CSS for better display, fixing accessibility issues with alt tags, and removing redundant links within the application. Furthermore, the user was involved in implementing improvements to the review pop-up and updating the version display in the diff dropdown, while also adding a bonus point system for reviewers. These changes spanned frontend and backend templates, as well as core application logic.
django
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