Nicholas Firth-mccoy
Co-Founder And CTO at Lyssna
Torquay, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Firth-mccoy is a serial entrepreneur and software engineer with 14 years of experience founding and scaling SaaS businesses from a web agency to a successful scale-up. As Co-Founder and CTO of Lyssna he transitioned from wearing every hat to building and leading a distributed engineering organisation that delivers a secure, scalable remote user research platform for a global customer base. He previously co-founded Paydirt, growing it to ~A$300k ARR before exiting, which honed his product instincts, customer-focused design and full-stack development skills. Comfortable across product, marketing, sales and ops, Nicholas thrives on hiring high-performance teams and creating cultures that consistently hit ambitious goals. He pairs a hands-on technical mindset with an operator’s fluency in strategy and finance, and is energized by tackling technical challenges that scale sustainably. Based in Torquay, Australia, he brings practical startup grit plus a keen eye for turning user research into product advantage.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Github Skills (200)
yum10
error-handler10
stacktrace10
rack10
api10
html10
wai-aria10
fetch10
bitbucket10
svelte10
visualization10
stale-while-revalidate10
react-query10
package-management10
simplecov10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nfm/devbox-bootstrap
Jan 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:53 pushes in 5 years 11 months
nfm/dotfiles
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:41 commits, 92 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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