Nicholas Basker
Software Development Team Lead at AARNet (Australia's Academic and Research Network)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Basker is a seasoned software development team lead with nine years of experience designing and delivering production-grade, scalable distributed systems across startups and large enterprises. He combines hands-on expertise in Go, C/C++, Python, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Kubernetes with deep experience in Linux kernel modules, network drivers and embedded systems to solve high-throughput, real-world problems. Nicholas has led architecture and delivery for systems ingesting large telemetry streams, optimized API and DB performance, and built automation and simulation infra to validate scale and reliability. He excels at turning ambiguous requirements into modular designs, mentoring engineers, and bridging product, support and engineering to meet business objectives. Based in Sydney, he explores blockchain tooling (Hyperledger) in open source and frequently publishes technical write-ups on systems engineering and async concurrency.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Motilal Nehru National Institute Of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Michigan State University
Github Skills (26)
consensus10
modular10
ledger10
privacy-preserving10
blockchain10
fabric10
hyperledger10
hyperledger-fabric10
confidentiality9
privacy9
scale9
dlt9
distributed-ledger9
cscope8
ctags5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nbasker/tools
Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:52 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
nbasker/trials
Jun 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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