Nicholas Shanks
Software Engineer at WebKit Open Source Project
Welwyn Hatfield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNicholas Shanks is a seasoned software engineer with 24 years of experience spanning Mac native apps, full‑stack PHP/MySQL web development, and modern web standards work at organisations including the BBC and Royal Opera House. He brings deep Cocoa, OpenGL and POSIX expertise from a decade of Mac programming alongside professional PHP and RESTful API design, accessibility and front‑end optimisation. An active open‑source contributor since the WebKit and CSS3.info days, he also improves game UIs (notably Endless Sky) and has a history of shipping multimedia and live‑production tooling. Comfortable bridging platform and web technologies, he pairs practical engineering with an astrophysics background and a knack for quietly modernising legacy systems.
24 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Astrophysics (Astronomy, Physics, Mathematics), Astrophysics (Astronomy, Physics, Mathematics) at University of Hertfordshire
English, German
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Github Skills (27)
c-language10
user-interface10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
uid10
front-end-development10
rest10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
json9
2d-game9
datasets9
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charts9
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
endless-sky/endless-sky
May 2024 - Oct 2024
Space exploration, trading, and combat game.
Role in this project:
UI Developer
UI DeveloperContributions:87 reviews, 32 PRs, 193 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the game. Their contributions included adding ship models to ship lost messages, sorting salaries and tributes in the player info panel, hiding the mission description pane when no mission is selected, adding more user settings for scrolling speed, adding a random name button for ship renaming, and adding a parked label to the ship tooltip. The user also implemented the park key to shop panels.
gamerpgc-plus-plustop-down2d-game
nickshanks/ResKnife
Oct 2001 - Oct 2015
Contributions:60 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 14 years 2 months
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