Nick Hodges
Contributing Writer at InfoWorld
West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolNick Hodges is a seasoned software engineer, developer advocate, and technical writer with 15 years of experience building developer tools, leading product teams, and mentoring engineers. He blends hands-on expertise in Delphi, TypeScript, Astro, and test automation with leadership forged as a Naval officer and as a director/manager at Embarcadero and Gateway Ticketing Systems. Nick has led teams that delivered large-scale SaaS systems and RAD Studio releases, and he grew developer communities and engagement in advocacy roles at LinearB, Rollbar, and 1Password/Passage. An active open-source contributor, he improves tooling and test frameworks—most notably contributing documentation and interoperability fixes to the widely used DUnitX Delphi unit-test framework. Now writing for InfoWorld while doing senior development work, he pairs clear technical communication with pragmatic engineering. He’s equally comfortable digging into legacy Delphi internals or crafting modern TypeScript tooling, and he often draws on military-grade decision-making under pressure to drive results.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
NIOBCBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Classical Languages, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Classical Languages at Carleton CollegeMaster of Science (M.S.) Information Technology Management, Master of Science (M.S.) Information Technology Management at Naval Postgraduate SchoolGraduate Diploma College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program, Graduate Diploma College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Wayzata High School
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Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
test-framework10
delphix10
delphi10
testing10
xml8
ios6
nodejs6
odbc6
azure6
azure-sql-database6
twitter6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
VSoftTechnologies/DUnitX
May 2013 - May 2015
Delphi Unit Test Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 commits, 1 push in 2 years
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the DUnitX framework by adding documentation to existing code, improving the clarity and usability of the framework. Further, they modified and enhanced the testing capabilities by addressing issues, particularly with the XML NUnit logger. The user's work involved updating the build process for compatibility across different Delphi versions and fixing specific testing functionality related to date formatting in tests.
delphiunit-testdpmpackage
NickHodges/phillycc2024
Apr 2024 - Apr 2024
Contributions:29 pushes, 13 branches in 1 day
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