Nick Burch
Director Of Engineering at Saible
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Burch is a Director of Engineering with 13 years of professional experience and a long-standing commitment to pragmatic open source through Apache Foundation involvement. He blends hands-on development, mentoring, product management and visionary leadership to introduce open development and agile practices into regulated sectors like pharma and logistics while preserving auditability and compliance. Former CTO at Quanticate and engineering lead across startups and scale-ups, he has driven teams to adopt open standards and distributed agile methods to deliver measurable business value. An active contributor to projects such as the Wagtail CMS and useful front-end tooling like ShortcutMapper, he combines backend and UI chops with real-world deployment experience. Trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford, he brings analytical rigor and a practical, people-focused approach to complex engineering challenges.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MChem, Chemistry, MChem, Chemistry at University of Oxford
French, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
html10
keyboard-layout10
databases10
cms10
wagtail10
python10
django10
database10
testing9
forms9
user-authentication9
javascript9
authentication9
migration8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wagtail/wagtail
Jun 2014 - Jun 2022
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 87 commits, 22 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the Wagtail CMS backend, focusing on user notification preferences and page management features. They implemented a UserProfile model, notification preferences form, and view, alongside adding functionality to check user preferences before sending notifications. The contributions include enhancements to email templates and test suites for these features. Additionally, the user made adjustments to the site model and routing, enabling multiple sites with different ports.
cmsmanagement-systempythondjangouser-experience
waldobronchart/ShortcutMapper
May 2014 - Jun 2014
A visual keyboard shortcuts explorer for popular applications.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 11 days
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the visual representation of keyboard layouts within the "shortcutmapper" repository. They added new keyboard layouts for various Dvorak configurations (US and UK) across different operating systems (Mac, Windows, Linux). These contributions involved creating HTML files that define the visual layout of the keys and integrating them into the existing keyboard selector functionality. The user also updated the `keyboards.js` file to enable these new layouts within the application.
keyboard-shortcutskeyboardkeyboard-layoutshortcutsexplorer
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