Nic Townsend
Senior Software Engineer - Event Automation
Eastleigh, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNic Townsend is a senior software engineer with over a decade of continuous IBM tenure and six years focused on event-driven systems, currently leading Event Automation work. He combines strong Java (Vert.x) and JavaScript expertise—spanning UI frameworks and Node.js—to build scalable streaming and event-streaming platforms. Nic holds a first-class BSc in Computer Science from the University of Warwick and presented practical streaming patterns at Devoxx UK 2021. His career progression at IBM shows deep domain continuity from master data management through event streams to endpoint automation, reflecting both product and platform fluency. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who translates complex distributed-system constraints into maintainable code and predictable operational behavior. Based in Eastleigh, he brings a steady mix of hands-on implementation and systems thinking to large-scale event-driven architectures.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 1st Class, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 1st Class at University of Warwick
Github Skills (79)
parser10
python10
specification10
javascript10
json-editor10
stomp10
reactive10
big-data10
api10
sql10
readable10
kafka10
apache10
java10
asyncapi10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nictownsend/strimzi-ui
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Strimzi UI
Contributions:3 PRs, 89 pushes, 12 branches in 2 months
reactstrimzi
nictownsend/docker-all-the-things
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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