Nicholas Ferrar
Australia
Summary
👤
SeniorNicholas Ferrar is a C library and C++ engineer with 11 years of experience building realtime and XR systems, currently contributing to mod.io and organising the Unreal Sydney community. He blends deep hands‑on engine work—authoring C++ modules, plugins and XR templates—with operational responsibilities like CI/CD, Perforce/Jenkins administration and deployment automation. Nicholas has led Reality Labs and studio teams to translate client needs into scalable VR/AR toolsets and has taught Unreal Engine courses at TAFE NSW, demonstrating both technical depth and an aptitude for education. He co-founded Company of Unicorns and has repeatedly shipped production VR experiences and developer-facing toolchains, showing a rare mix of product, consultancy and technical leadership. An often overlooked strength is his community-building: running meetups and creating educational offerings that connect industry practitioners, students and hobbyists across Sydney.
11 years of coding experienceGithub contributions (5)
nFerrar/Iter
Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:76 commits, 75 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
nFerrar/HandyThings
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:6 releases, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.