Nic Wolfe
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNic Wolfe is a seasoned full-stack developer with 16 years of software engineering experience and over a decade delivering maintainable, mission-critical systems for GE's IIoT platform. He brings deep expertise in cloud deployments, SOA/microservices, IoT edge connectivity, and security-focused development processes. A pragmatic engineering leader and mentor, Nic emphasizes maintainability and testability while driving agile teams to ship flagship offerings for lighthouse customers. His open-source contributions span backend parsing and tooling improvements—enhancing projects like tvnamer and Sick-Beard—and full-stack UX and localization work in the widely used ruTorrent front-end. Comfortable across languages and the stack, he combines critical technical problem-solving with a knack for simplifying messy real-world data formats. Based in Canada with a BS in Computer Software Engineering from the University of Alberta, he quietly blends hands-on codecraft with systems-level design.
16 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Software Engineering, BS, Computer Software Engineering at University of Alberta
French
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
strings10
python10
testing10
text-manipulation10
torrent10
file-parsing10
webui10
regular-expression10
php10
bittorrent10
tor10
refactor9
css9
refactoring9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
midgetspy/Sick-Beard
Nov 2009 - Mar 2016
PVR & episode guide that downloads and manages all your TV shows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2328 commits, 29 PRs, 22 pushes in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nic primarily contributed to the codebase by modifying the name parser, specifically improving how the series name is extracted and formatted from various episode title patterns. They implemented these changes by modifying the Python code and also creating tests for those changes, showcasing their focus on the backend aspects of the project. Additionally, the user fixed bugs related to handling character encodings for certain files and created file permission changes, indicating the ability to resolve problems with the core system itself.
tv-showsepisodepvr
Novik/ruTorrent
Mar 2019 - Nov 2019
Yet another web front-end for rTorrent
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 4 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nic primarily contributed to the web front-end of rutorrent, enhancing its functionality and user interface. Their work included adding features such as displaying tracker sizes and context menu options for managing search tags. Furthermore, the user addressed localization by adding and updating language files, ensuring the application's usability across different regions. The user also worked on making search more flexible.
web-front-endp2pbittorrentyet-anotherrtorrent
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