Nick Cuthbert
Software Engineer at Root.co.za
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Cuthbert is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native systems and distributed actor architectures using C#, F#, JavaScript and React. He holds a distinction in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town and has shipped production software at startups tackling urban transport and local cloud services. Beyond backend and cloud architecture, Nick contributes to open-source tooling—improving test automation and packaging for the popular Ink interactive narrative engine—and brings practical experience in build/distribution workflows. A creative technologist interested in game development, graphic design and programming language theory, he blends analytical rigor with a designer’s eye and a curiosity for unconventional ideas. Based in Cape Town, he’s also active in communities shaped by his diverse personal perspective and interdisciplinary interests.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Computer Game Development, Distinction in Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Computer Game Development, Distinction in Computer Science at University of Cape TownIEB Matric, IEB Matric at Oakhill School
Github Skills (9)
nunit10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
testing10
asp-net9
dotnet9
net9
nuget8
build-automation6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
inkle/ink
May 2016 - May 2016
inkle's open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 13 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on improving the test suite for the Ink scripting language. They addressed issues related to line endings and relative paths, modifying existing tests to ensure they function correctly. The user also added functionality to create NuGet packages for the Ink engine, indicating involvement in the build process and distribution of the project. Further work involved adjusting the working directory within the tests to reflect the actual running environment.
scriptinginklescripting-languagedialogue-systemscompiler
ncthbrt/RealRocketRacing
Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 7 pushes in 7 months
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