Nick Budden
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolNick Budden is a serial founder and product-driven CEO with 13 years building design and AI-focused startups, currently leading Ink, an AI startup after founding Phase and Vectr Labs. He combines hands-on product design, UX, and engineering leadership with successful fundraising (~$16M+ raised across ventures) and experience scaling distributed teams and consumer-facing web tools to hundreds of thousands of users. Nick’s work sits at the intersection of visual design and production code—shipping WYSIWYG, code-accurate editors and AI-native consumer experiences that bridge designer-developer gaps. He’s repeatedly led early-stage go-to-market experiments to rapid growth and navigated both acquisition and tough fundraising pivots. A Canadian who’s lived and worked across Asia and Europe, he pairs a polyglot, cross-cultural background with a restless maker’s curiosity born from multi-year travel and hands-on prototyping.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Korean Language, Korean Language at Sungkyunkwan UniversityCommerce, Commerce at Universidad VeracruzanaFoundation Year Programme, Classics, Philosophy, Foundation Year Programme, Classics, Philosophy at University of King's CollegeFrench, French at Dalhousie UniversityFrench, French at Université de MontréalBA, International Relations/Commerce, BA, International Relations/Commerce at Mount Allison UniversityEconomics, Economics at Athabasca UniversityMaestría en Administración de Negocios, Commerce, Finance, Maestría en Administración de Negocios, Commerce, Finance at Universidad de las Americas, Puebla
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (63)
hexo10
javascript9
zenhub9
typescript9
nodejs9
static-site-generator8
tencent8
saas7
timezone7
text-align6
grid-layout6
localization6
php6
meteor6
aws6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nickbuddendotcom/nickbudden.com
Aug 2015 - Jan 2022
My Hexo Website
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch, 3 issues in 6 years 6 months
hexo
vectrlabs/GitHub-Kanban
Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
Automated Kanban Board for GitHub
Contributions:25 commits, 6 PRs, 20 pushes in 7 months
kanbanautomationboardkanban-board
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