Nicholas Blumhardt
Founder And CEO at Datalust
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolNicholas Blumhardt is a founder and CEO with 18 years of software engineering experience, best known for creating Seq at Datalust, a diagnostics platform that simplifies monitoring across industries from finance to healthcare. He combines hands-on .NET development and platform design with product leadership, having previously shaped core .NET experiences at Microsoft and driven early growth at Octopus Deploy. An active open-source contributor, Nicholas has made substantive contributions to widely used projects like Serilog and Stateless, improving logging, state-machine, and parsing libraries that underpin many enterprise systems. He blends pragmatic engineering—automating build and deployment pipelines and enhancing library robustness—with a passion for helping others publish and sustain open-source software. Based in Queensland, Australia, he pairs technical depth with a founder’s focus on developer experience and operational simplicity.
18 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Queensland
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Github Skills (63)
unit-testing10
nuget10
json10
javascript10
serilog10
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css10
net10
configuration-management10
formatting10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
serilog/serilog
Feb 2013 - Jan 2023
Simple .NET logging with fully-structured events
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 127 reviews, 983 commits in 10 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the back-end of the Serilog project, focusing on adding new features and fixing bugs related to logging functionality and integration with various systems. Their work involved implementing non-generic overloads for context methods, expanding the capabilities of the JSON formatter, and improving the performance and flexibility of the rolling file sink. Additionally, the user worked on integrating Serilog with different third-party systems such as XSockets, and Elasticsearch by adding code to support those features.
dotneteventsstructuredloggerstructured-logging
serilog/serilog-settings-configuration
Jun 2015 - Dec 2022
A Serilog configuration provider that reads from Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 130 commits, 129 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Serilog configuration provider. Their work focused on parsing configuration files using the Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration library. They implemented methods for loading assemblies, handling minimum logging levels, and processing "Enrich" and "WriteTo" directives. The user also made updates to the build process and dependencies.
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