Nicholas Fane
Lead Software Engineer at Compare the Market Australia
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Fane is a Lead Software Engineer based in Queensland with a decade of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and improving engineering culture across enterprise and fintech environments. He combines deep .NET and front-end expertise (Angular/React patterns) with hands-on platform work in Elasticsearch, Kubernetes/ECK, Docker, and Terraform to deliver high-throughput search and payment integrations. Nicholas has repeatedly led replatforming and performance efforts—reducing CI build times, redesigning search architectures serving millions of queries, and driving event-driven ingestion pipelines. He’s comfortable bridging product, design and engineering, running training programs and standardising component and styling architectures to increase team velocity. Notably, he pairs senior technical leadership with practical ops experience—reindexing production Elasticsearch clusters and formalising deployment/playbook processes that others can adopt.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Software Development, Software Development, Diploma of Software Development, Software Development at MSIT
Github Skills (36)
client-library10
strongly-typed10
confluent9
nuget9
java9
elasticsearch-net9
confluent-cloud9
nest9
elastic9
elasticsearch9
apache-kafka8
dotnet8
kafka8
search-engine8
restful7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NickFane/NetCoreWorkerService
Jun 2019 - Dec 2020
Example Worker Service in .NET Core
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
dotnetservice-workerworkernet-corecsharp
NickFane/RiskEvaluator
Nov 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:10 PRs, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
evaluateconsolerisksettledbets
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