Nicholas Tuck
Software Gardener at Agile for Defense Meetup
Papillion, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Tuck is a versatile software leader and "Software Gardener" with 12+ years building web and distributed systems across startups, enterprise, and defense sectors. He blends hands-on engineering (Java, Spring, React, microservices, Docker) with organizational change—introducing CI, trunk-based development, style guides, and iterative delivery to teams at Proxibid, Aviture, and Air Force Weather. A frequent speaker and organizer (Agile for Defense, regional conferences), he pushes practical culture change through radical candor, ShipIt Days, and deliberate practice. His work often focuses on modernizing legacy stacks into responsive, service-oriented architectures while preserving developer productivity. Based in Papillion, NE, he co-runs a public-facing practice as TheSoftwareGardener.com to share experiments that challenge conventional programming norms. An unusual strength is pairing deep technical refactors with people-first practices to accelerate both delivery and team capability.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Math, Physics, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Math, Physics at University of Nebraska-LincolnGeneral Education, High School, General Education, High School at Bellevue West
Stackoverflow
551reputation
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Github Skills (80)
mobile-web10
javascript10
stencil10
ionic10
angular10
progressive-web-apps10
typescript10
vue10
ios10
css10
ui-toolkit10
capacitor10
frontend10
react10
react-components9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NicholasTuck/dotfiles
Jul 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 years 7 months
NicholasTuck/grinder_automated_test_task
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:15 commits, 1 comment in 13 days
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