Nick Drummond
Senior Software Engineer at SciBite
North Devon, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Drummond is a senior software engineer with 18 years’ experience designing and delivering data- and metadata-driven applications, currently focused at SciBite. He specializes in semantic web technologies and web standards, with a long history of building reusable APIs, microservices and content-driven systems deployed to AWS. Nick was a principal engineer on the BBC homepage and created tooling used across editorial teams, and earlier in his career he led development on Protege’s OWL editor—contributing backend fixes and ontology parsing improvements to a widely used open-source project. He blends research-led work (MRes in Informatics) with practical product delivery, having worked on medical knowledge systems in collaboration with Siemens Health. Based in North Devon, he also runs small hospitality businesses, reflecting an entrepreneurial streak and an ability to manage end-to-end operations beyond engineering. He codes for fun and brings a pragmatic, standards-first approach to solving complex integration and metadata challenges.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science at The University of Manchester
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Github Skills (8)
javas10
java10
data-structure9
data-structures9
front-end-development8
wordpress6
php6
event-calendar6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
protegeproject/protege
Aug 2007 - Mar 2010
Protege Desktop
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:517 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on improving the Protege Desktop, addressing several bugs and enhancing functionality. Their commits involved changes to the underlying Java code, including improvements to the axiom handling, and fixing some user interface issues with dialogs and presentation. The changes included work on the ontology parser and changes to the UI elements.
semanticsknowledge-graphelectronowlobo
co-ode-owl-plugins/owldoc
Apr 2008 - Dec 2009
Contributions:17 commits in 1 year 7 months
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