Nic Strong
Senior Software Engineer at IPFX
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolNic Strong is a Senior Software Engineer based in Auckland with 15 years of experience building large client/server systems across telecommunications, fixed-income trading, and mobile sectors. Skilled in C++, C# and Perl, he has led teams from a CTO role at a startup to senior engineering and functional architect positions at major firms including IBM and UBS. Currently focused on video conferencing at IPFX, Nic brings deep expertise in high-availability systems and protocol-driven telecom solutions. He also contributes to open-source tooling for Android development, having enhanced the widely used android-maven-plugin to improve device file handling and manifest updates—an example of his practical, systems-level tinkering. Nic combines a strong academic foundation (BSc Hons Computer Science, University of Auckland) with a track record of shipping robust, production-grade software in both large enterprises and small teams.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at University of Auckland
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Github Skills (15)
maven10
android-sdk10
android10
java9
cordova9
stream-reader9
javas9
http9
testing8
gedcom6
connections6
windows6
readline6
visual-studio6
unicode6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
simpligility/android-maven-plugin
Aug 2011 - May 2013
Maven Plugin for Android Application development and more
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:8 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Nic primarily contributed to the `android-maven-plugin`, enhancing its capabilities for Android application development. Their work included adding functionality to pull files from devices, update the AndroidManifest.xml, and fix installation issues. The contributions involved modifying the plugin's core logic and updating the tests to validate functionality. They also upgraded AndroidSdk and tools.
maven-pluginmavenandroidandroid-applicationapplication-development
nicstrong/android-google-drive-browser
Jul 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 9 months
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