Nicholas Hunt
Technical Lead at OSINT Combine
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Hunt is a technical lead and full‑stack engineer from Melbourne with over a decade of combined experience in software engineering, startup leadership, and military command. He builds modern PHP/Laravel and Vue 3 platforms with a strong attention to developer experience, automated testing, performance, and accessibility. Nicholas has led product and engineering teams end-to-end—co‑founding and heading product development roles as well as directing delivery for transport and care-tech products. He brings operational discipline from 9+ years in the Australian Army, where he commanded teams up to 100 and deployed as a platoon commander, translating that into strategic planning and high-trust team building. An active contributor to the Laravel ecosystem, he has improved core framework encryption and compatibility, demonstrating both deep backend expertise and attention to security. He combines hands‑on coding with mentoring and stakeholder alignment to scale resilient systems and teams.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Russian
Github Skills (6)
php10
laravel10
encryption10
laravel-mix10
testing9
database-management8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on enhancing the Laravel framework's encryption capabilities. Their work involved adding support for AES-128-GCM and AES-256-GCM encryption, including necessary modifications to the `Encrypter` class and related tests. The user also updated the code for compatibility with PHP 7.3 and addressed potential issues with legacy encrypted values by adding null checks for the tag. Additionally, the user contributed to preserving dynamic database connections after reconnecting.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
nickakitch/qrtracer
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
Enable Contract Tracing within small businesses with a QR code
Contributions:12 PRs, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
contracttracingqr-codebusinesses
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