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 (39)
speaker7
sink7
bgp5
hackage5
bmp5
testing4
jekyll4
get-started4
ghc4
servant4
cabal4
openstack3
dataplane3
docker3
vendor3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hdb3/kakapo
Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
BGP flood tool - source and sink, + analytics and remote execution framework
Contributions:573 commits, 8 PRs, 628 pushes in 1 year 4 months
floodanalyticsremote-executionsinkbgp
hdb3/hBGP
Feb 2019 - Mar 2025
A complete functional language implementation of a BGP stack (BGP speaker, dataplane, MRT and BMP)
Contributions:3 PRs, 477 pushes, 63 branches in 6 years 1 month
functional-languagebmpdataplanespeakerbgp
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