Nick Apperley
Software Engineer
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolNick Apperley is a pragmatic software engineer based in Christchurch, New Zealand, with 11 years of experience spanning desktop, mobile and web development alongside five years of system administration. He brings a strong Java background—having built JME toolkits, JEE web services and JSE console utilities—plus Python and SQL experience used to deliver database-backed applications and CMS-driven websites. Comfortable across the stack, Nick has hands-on expertise in UI design, UML-led design and unit testing, and has repeatedly taken operational ownership by imaging and administrating Windows and Linux fleets. He’s targeting a transition into business analysis within two years and aspires to become a mobile-focused software architect within five, reflecting a career blend of technical delivery and growing product-level thinking. An under-the-radar strength is his repeated use of NetBeans and manual imaging tools like Clonezilla, indicating a practical, end-to-end approach from development to deployment.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BICT, Information Technology, BICT, Information Technology at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute Of TechnologyInformation Technology, Information Technology at Christchurch College Of Computing
English
Github Skills (200)
drag10
gradle-plugin10
event-loop10
coroutines10
vertx10
connected10
intellij-plugin10
high-performance10
facade10
kotlin-native10
maven-plugin10
reactive10
kotlin10
asynchronous10
drag-and-drop10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
napperley/openfaas-kotlin-templates
Jun 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:18 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
napperley/kotlin-native
Apr 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:22 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 10 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.