Nic Ferrier
Chief Architect, Transformation & Digital And Security Architect For HSBC IB
Tonbridge and Malling, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNic Ferrier is a seasoned technology leader and chief architect with 15+ years driving large-scale transformation, currently leading Transformation, Digital and Security architecture for HSBC Investment Banking. He combines deep hands-on engineering—building on-prem cloud tooling, ultra-fast Postgres provisioning and bespoke vulnerability eradication systems—with proven organisational change, having doubled release velocity and halved incidents across hundreds of engineers. Previously he scaled FX delivery from 25 to 12,000 releases a year and has a long track record of introducing continuous delivery, microservices and DevOps practices in banks, startups and consulting. An active Emacs hacker and maintainer (author of Elnode and contributor to s.el), he brings a hacker’s pragmatism to enterprise problems and a knack for embedding learning cultures that others try to copy. Comfortable working across low-latency trading stacks to large web platforms, he pairs technical depth with coaching and organisational design to make high-flow engineering repeatable at scale.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of Portsmouth
Stackoverflow
1,643reputation
540kreached
26answers
6questions
emacs
top-5%
Github Skills (17)
strings10
text-manipulation10
macros10
emacs-lisp10
testing9
emacs9
templating8
regular-expression8
elisp6
shell6
nodejs6
http6
linux6
bash6
authentication6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
magnars/s.el
Dec 2012 - May 2013
The long lost Emacs string manipulation library.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nic primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Emacs string manipulation library, `s.el`. Their contributions include adding new features like `s-format` for templating and `s-lex-format` for lexical environment formatting. They also improved existing functionalities by adding new helper functions such as `s-pad-left`, `s-pad-right`, and implementing improvements to existing functions like `s-match-strings-all`. The user also added new tests, and addressed and fixed several existing issues.
manipulationmanipulation-libraryelispincrementalstring
nicferrier/skinny
Nov 2012 - Feb 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 3 months
blog-engineskinny
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