Nic Appleby
Engineering Director - Omnicomm at Bash
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolNic Appleby is an engineering leader with two decades of experience building web applications and a decade-plus track record in senior technical and executive roles across South Africa. Currently Engineering Director at Omnicomm, he has served as CTO at startups and groups, led backend engineering at Superbalist, and run a long-standing freelance practice delivering web solutions. He combines hands-on technical depth in backend systems with a passion for mentoring and developing engineers, formalized by recent leadership and coaching studies at GIBS and Wits Business School. Known for translating product needs into pragmatic, scalable architectures, Nic brings an educator’s mindset to team growth and operational excellence. Based in Cape Town, he pairs academic training in computer science with practical experience across e-commerce, education, and enterprise software, and maintains a curiosity for topics from machine learning to quantum computation.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc (Hons), Computer Science, B.Sc (Hons), Computer Science at University of Cape TownOnline Course - University of California, Berkeley, Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation, Online Course - University of California, Berkeley, Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation at Coursera.orgGordon Institute of Business Science: Leading with Impact, Organizational Leadership, Gordon Institute of Business Science: Leading with Impact, Organizational Leadership at MasterStart
Portuguese
Github Skills (39)
filesystem10
google-cloud-platform10
laravel10
flysystem10
google-cloud-storage10
php10
google-cloud10
prometheus-exporter9
snap9
k8s8
microk8s8
cicd8
gnome7
iot6
klaviyo6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Superbalist/laravel-google-cloud-storage
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
A Google Cloud Storage filesystem for Laravel
Contributions:7 releases, 8 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 4 months
filesystemgoogle-cloud-storagelaravellaravel5laravel5-package
balfour-group/laravel-query-filters
Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
A library for applying filters & sorts to a query builder
Contributions:9 reviews, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
queryfilterssortingbuilderquery-builder
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