Nick Heap
Principal Software Engineer at OneAdvanced
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Heap is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience and eight years in senior roles, currently leading AI-focused initiatives at OneAdvanced. He blends deep practical knowledge across APIs, OpenEdge, cloud-native tooling, and full-stack JavaScript with a proven track record of driving modernization, DevOps adoption, and measurable performance testing at scale. Nick is a pragmatic problem solver and mentor who routinely translates complex legacy systems into containerised, automated pipelines while keeping developer experience front and center. He pairs technical breadth—from C# and JavaScript to Kafka and Elasticsearch—with a background in philosophy and psychology that sharpens his stakeholder-focused approach to process change. Known for building bespoke tooling (CI pipelines, OpenEdge containerisation, and Azure test visualization) and mentoring new engineers, he thrives on opening product opportunities through automation and data-driven observability.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
L7 AI and Data Science Apprenticeship, Artificial Intelligence, L7 AI and Data Science Apprenticeship, Artificial Intelligence at Cambridge SparkBA (Hons) / BSC (Hons) Philosophy with Psychology, Philosophy, BA (Hons) / BSC (Hons) Philosophy with Psychology, Philosophy at University of StaffordshireThe Streetly School
Github Skills (79)
serverless10
serverless-applications10
lambda10
vscode-extension10
aws-sam10
vscode10
amazon10
docker10
sam10
aws10
api-gateway10
cli9
ant9
python9
ant-task8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NickHeap/vscode-ant
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
Visual Studio Code Ant Task Runner Extension published on the marketplace
Contributions:28 commits in 3 months
ant-taskvisual-studio-code
NickHeap2/vscode-ant
Aug 2018 - Oct 2022
Visual Studio Code Ant Task Runner Extension published on the marketplace
Contributions:5 releases, 75 commits, 19 PRs in 4 years 2 months
ant-taskvisual-studio-codevscode-extensionant
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