Nick Dowse
Senior Software Engineer at Stripe
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNick Dowse is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web systems and shipping product-focused infrastructure, currently working on future-facing technology at Stripe in New York. He has a strong backend pedigree from leading core upload/download systems at WeTransfer that served 80M+ monthly users, and has balanced hands-on engineering with people leadership as an engineering manager. Comfortable across Ruby on Rails, JVM and modern backend stacks, he excels at simplifying complex systems end-to-end—from client features to infrastructure. A curious, fast learner who teaches and mentors (former web instructor and university demonstrator), he pairs pragmatic problem solving with clear technical communication. Outside work he climbs, reads and plays piano, a mix that hints at steady focus and creative discipline applied to engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of OtagoWellington CollegeUniversity of California Santa Cruz
English
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Github Skills (20)
ghost9
sublime-text-plugin8
multistore8
rails8
sublime8
ruby8
sublime-text8
mysql8
activesupport7
activerecord7
ruby-on-rails5
refactoring5
sidekiq5
sass5
css4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nickdowse/RailsMagicRenamer
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:1 release, 84 commits, 60 pushes in 6 months
ruby-on-railsrailsrefactoringruby
WeTransfer/multi_store
Feb 2019 - Mar 2021
MultiStore allows you to delegate to multiple ActiveSupport cache stores.
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
multistorerailsrubyactivesupportcache
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