Nick Boyd
Research Engineer at Apryse
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolNick Boyd is a research engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building secure, full-stack solutions and tooling for real-time and document-focused systems. Rooted in a background in digital forensics and security, he favors API-first design to improve maintainability and testability while applying insights from incident analysis to harden code and data flows. His work spans infrastructure and application layers—from Spring and Java backends to Node.js and real-time ad tech—and he’s contributed research-driven projects like an open lip-tracking VR initiative and a proposed OpenXR face-tracking extension. Comfortable in Agile, Kanban or traditional teams, he pairs curiosity-driven experimentation (game mods, web apps, small games) with pragmatic delivery for clients. Based in Ghent, he blends technical craft with creative practices—digital painting, timber carving and hardware tinkering—that fuel unconventional solutions and open-source releases.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
European Baccalaureat, Biology, Philosophy, ICT, Art, European Baccalaureat, Biology, Philosophy, ICT, Art at Ecole Européen IxellesEngineering, Engineering at Groep T - Internationale Hogeschool LeuvenJava Enterprise Edition, Tomcat Server and GUI, Java Enterprise Edition, Tomcat Server and GUI at Technofutur FormaTICBSc Computer Games Design, Games Design, Project Management, 3D Modelling, Texturing, Marketing, BSc Computer Games Design, Games Design, Project Management, 3D Modelling, Texturing, Marketing at Staffordshire UniversityUniversity of St. Andrews
English, French, Italian, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (109)
pdfbox10
steamvr10
pdf-document10
pdf-files10
openvr10
updating10
sdk9
pdf-generation9
hardware9
pdf9
acronym9
driver9
merge9
pdf-manipulation9
itext8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Minothor/hobo_vr
Mar 2022 - Apr 2023
SteamVR driver prototyping tools
Contributions:338 pushes, 10 branches, 7 tags in 1 year 1 month
drivervirtual-realityprototypingopenvrsteamvr
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