Nicholas Hart
Software Development Lead at BISDN GmbH
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Hart is a software development lead and architect with over a decade of hands-on experience in networking-focused systems engineering and team leadership, currently based in Berlin. He combines industry and academic rigor—holding a PhD researcher role and long teaching/research stints at Lancaster University—with product and pre-sales engineering roots dating back to early carrier networking companies. At BISDN and previously at Otolo Networks he has driven software delivery and architecture for network platforms, while his career also spans consultancy and technical sales roles that inform a strong customer- and deployment-oriented mindset. Known for bridging deep protocol-level understanding with practical software delivery, he brings uncommon continuity from low-level engineering through to leadership and product-facing responsibilities.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics at The Open University
Github Skills (26)
bgp6
dataplane6
bmp5
gitlab4
testing4
ghc4
openstack3
haskell3
jekyll3
kvm3
libvirt3
metadata3
mininet3
disqus2
gerrit2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hdb3/hBGP
Feb 2019 - Jun 2025
A complete functional language implementation of a BGP stack (BGP speaker, dataplane, MRT and BMP)
Contributions:3 PRs, 482 pushes, 65 branches in 6 years 4 months
bgpbmpdataplane
hdb3/session
Oct 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
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