Nicholas Cannon
Software Engineer at VGW
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Cannon is a software engineer with 11 years of professional experience, currently driving delivery and technical direction at VGW while completing an Honours in Computer Science researching machine-learning sports prediction. He spans the full stack—React frontends, TypeScript/Node.js backends, Postgres-based event stores, Pulumi IaC, and CICD pipelines—and built a production Node.js solution relied on to read billions of events. As a delivery lead he coordinates teams, liaises with product and stakeholders to hit OKRs, mentors engineers to ramp quickly, and serves as an on-call engineer to ensure service stability. His background includes shipping mobile-wrapped React apps, real-time asynchronous activity streams, and improving platform reliability, reflecting a pragmatic blend of academic research and hands-on product engineering.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Honours) - BS, Computer Science & Data Science, GPA: 6.500, WAM: 86.5, Bachelor of Science (Honours) - BS, Computer Science & Data Science, GPA: 6.500, WAM: 86.5 at The University of Western AustraliaPeter Moyes Anglican Community School
Github Skills (48)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
data-science9
ml9
python-requests9
deep-neural-networks9
neural-network9
keybindings8
javascript7
vscode7
http7
vim7
neovim6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nicholascannon/event-sourced-ecommerce
Oct 2022 - Sep 2024
A node.js event sourced ecommerce system for fun.
Contributions:6 PRs, 156 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 11 months
event-sourcedreactecommerceexpressjsnode-js
nicholascannon1/portfolio2.0
Jun 2019 - Jan 2021
My software development portfolio web app built using the MERN stack.
Contributions:1 PR, 83 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
reactexpressjsjavascriptmernexpress
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