Nick Bolton
Founder-CTO CEO at Synergy App
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Bolton is a founder-CTO/CEO with 17+ years building cross-platform desktop software and leading Symless, the company behind Synergy, a keyboard-and-mouse sharing app relied on by millions and used at Apple, Pixar, Disney and Salesforce. He transformed Synergy from an open-source labour of love into a commercial, enterprise-ready product while rearchitecting multi-device interaction in Synergy 3 with a sharp focus on UX, reliability and scale. Technically hands-on, Nick contributes to back-end code, logging and GUI refinements (e.g., removing CURL dependencies) across projects like Deskflow, demonstrating practical expertise in debugging, error handling and refactoring. His background spans mission-critical engineering at Ascom and founding a consultancy that delivered desktop, web and 3D visualization solutions, pairing product leadership with deep implementation experience. Based in the UK, he blends entrepreneurial grit with a developer’s attention to detail and a knack for turning niche utilities into widely adopted tools.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Marketing, Digital Marketing at General AssemblyBEng Degree Software Engineering, BEng Degree Software Engineering at Prifysgol Aberystwyth UniversityBTEC ND Software Development, BTEC ND Software Development at University College Isle of Man
English, Chinese, Russian, French, German, Spanish, Japanese
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Github contributions (5)
deskflow/deskflow
Jul 2017 - Oct 2022
Deskflow lets you share one mouse and keyboard between multiple computers on Windows, macOS and Linux. It's like a software KVM (but without video). Sponsored by Synergy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:252 releases, 889 reviews, 143 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nick focused on improving the application's logging by changing levels and updating error reporting, demonstrating an understanding of debugging and error handling. They also updated the GUI title and removed a CURL dependency, indicating involvement in GUI modifications and refactoring. Additionally, the user removed a dependency on CURL.
synergymouse-emulationmousesharingkeyboard-emulation
symless/synergy
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
Use the keyboard, mouse, or trackpad of one computer to control nearby computers, and work seamlessly between them.
Contributions:26 PRs, 99 pushes, 27 branches in 6 months
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