Nicholas Ireland
Senior Backend Engineer at Fanshawe College
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNicholas Ireland is a Senior Backend Engineer in Ontario with nine years of hands-on experience building and scaling SaaS backends, integrations, and data pipelines. He combines deep technical execution—driving migrations, AWS-based data flows that handle millions of daily requests, and integrations with Stripe, Shopify and Amazon—with proven people leadership as a Technical Development Manager who raised sprint completion from 60% to 90%. A full‑stack tinkerer and Vimmer, he also teaches backend development at Fanshawe College, having redesigned courses to align curriculum with industry practices and help students land placements. Comfortable jumping into incident response and long-term reliability work alike, he balances pragmatic engineering with mentoring and continuous learning.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Media Information and Techoculture, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Media Information and Techoculture at Western UniversityInteractive Media Design Interactive Media Design, Interactive Media Design Interactive Media Design at Fanshawe CollegeOSSD, OSSD at Clarke Road Secondary School
French, English
Github Skills (43)
auth10
eloquent10
acl10
laravel-eloquent10
laravel10
multitenancy10
security10
authorization10
php9
api9
vim9
lua9
gitconfig9
neovim9
nvim8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
xp-bar/erosion_control
Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:45 PRs, 208 pushes, 45 branches in 5 months
erosionpythonreactrcontrol-repo
xp-bar/.files
Sep 2018 - Jun 2026
My personal dotfiles.
Contributions:3 PRs, 310 pushes, 13 branches in 7 years 10 months
aliasesdotfilesgitconfigneovimnewsboat
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