Summary
Nicholas Masters is a London-based freelance developer with 13 years' experience specialising in PHP (Symfony), MySQL, JavaScript (Backbone/Marionette) and AWS infrastructure automated with SaltStack. He has held senior development roles and now consults for CompareTheGame, bringing a track record of shipping resilient web platforms and backend services. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs pragmatic server-side architecture with lean front-end patterns to deliver maintainable, data-driven applications. A University of Bath computer science graduate with an early background in aviation studies, he often applies systems-thinking and disciplined automation to reduce operational overhead.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, A2: Maths (A), Further Maths (A), Physics (C); AS: Law (C), High School, A2: Maths (A), Further Maths (A), Physics (C); AS: Law (C) at Kingsbridge Community College
Bachelor of Science (hons), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (hons), Computer Science at University of Bath
BTEC (Intermediate), Aviation Studies, Distinction, BTEC (Intermediate), Aviation Studies, Distinction at Air Training Corps
English, German