Nick Coyne
Tech Lead at CodeVader
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolNick Coyne is a Tech Lead and seasoned web application developer with 11 years of hands-on experience building Ruby on Rails solutions from strategy through implementation. As founder of CodeVader and current Tech Lead at A Hundred Years, he blends day-to-day programming with project management and client-facing consulting, consistently shipping pragmatic Agile projects. His background spans entrepreneurship and agency leadership—from scaling a South African multimedia firm to running a boutique Rails studio—bringing both product intuition and delivery discipline. Trained in engineering and business (BSc Eng; BCom Information Systems) and with a side history in professional photography, he combines technical rigor with a strong sense for user-facing detail. Colleagues describe him simply as “building things,” reflecting a bias toward shipping working software and solving real-world problems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
SACSBSc(Eng), Mechanical Engineering, BSc(Eng), Mechanical Engineering at University of Cape TownDip. Brand Communication, Dip. Brand Communication at VEGAUniversity of South Africa
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (112)
mvc10
ruby10
html10
rails10
currency9
youtube-api9
jquery-plugin9
cjs9
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
monitors9
country-codes9
region9
country-flags8
jquery8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nickcoyne/maraetai-sailing-club
Sep 2018 - Apr 2022
Website for Maraetai Sailing Club
Contributions:28 PRs, 60 pushes, 27 branches in 3 years 8 months
javascriptreactsailing
100yrs/code-style-guides
Nov 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:35 pushes in 8 years 4 months
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