Nicholas Tsim
AI Engineer at Freelance
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolNicholas Tsim is an AI and full-stack engineer with 11 years building scalable, user-centred systems for government, nonprofits and SMEs, currently applying AI to productivity tools at AbbVie. He led frontend development and architected the public REST API for the UK’s Explore Education Statistics platform (1000+ datasets, 200k+ monthly sessions), pairing accessible React/Next.js UIs with a DuckDB-backed .NET API. Comfortable across TypeScript, C#, Kotlin and Java, he combines hands-on backend architecture and cloud IaC (Azure/AWS/GCP, Terraform) with strong CI/CD and testing practices. A frequent mentor and advocate for engineering culture, he also contributes to open-source tooling—refactoring authentication and Git integrations for the popular staticman project—to broaden interoperability. Outside work he freelances on diverse client projects and enjoys cooking and learning about the world.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels, A Levels at Greenhead CollegeMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Chemistry, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Chemistry at The University of Sheffield
Chinese
Github Skills (7)
git10
nodejs10
javascript10
github-api10
gitlab-api9
static-site-generator8
api-design8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
eduardoboucas/staticman
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
💪 User-generated content for Git-powered websites
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the codebase for the `staticman` project, which is designed for user-generated content on Git-powered websites. Their contributions include restructuring the authentication mechanism, abstracting GitHub-specific functionalities into a more generalized GitService superclass to support GitLab integration, and incorporating new generated fields. These changes involved modifications to the core logic and API interactions within the project's backend components.
user-generated-contentmiddlemanhugostatic-site-generationjekyll
dfe-analytical-services/explore-education-statistics-api-docs
Oct 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:4 reviews, 3 PRs, 107 pushes in 2 years
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