Nick Holland
Technical Writer Content Writer at Mountain Data Group
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolNick Holland is a versatile technical and content writer with 13 years of experience merging clear, audience-focused documentation with a creative background in performance and visual arts. Based in Fort Collins, he writes technical blogs, academic summaries, and scripts for animated shorts while drawing on hands-on open-source engineering contributions to projects like OSMnx and SciPy that improved geospatial processing and numerical performance. His work on low-level stability and bug fixes in projects such as toxcore demonstrates an ability to dive into backend complexity and improve code quality and interoperability. Comfortable both as a solo creator and collaborator, he brings theatrical discipline and visual sensibility to technical storytelling and user-focused content. Equally at home transcribing courses for accessibility or producing album-cover art, he blends empathy, precision, and creativity to make complex ideas accessible.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General at Colorado State University
Github Skills (19)
openstreetmap10
algorithms10
scipy10
python10
tox10
testing10
memory-management10
networkx10
geospatial10
c1110
numpy10
c1710
numerical-methods10
scientific-computing10
optimization10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
scipy/scipy
Mar 2024 - Jun 2026
SciPy library main repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 reviews, 40 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the optimization and bug fixing of numerical algorithms within the SciPy library. Their work involved reducing memory usage in the `approx_derivative` function and refactoring code to move array allocations out of loops, improving computational efficiency. The user also addressed a divide-by-zero error in `ndimage.binary_erosion` and corrected OOB write issues within the `cluster` module. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the documentation and test cases within the repository.
scipypythonscientific-computing
gboeing/osmnx
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
Download, model, analyze, and visualize street networks and other geospatial features from OpenStreetMap.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 15 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to optimizing and maintaining the `osmnx` library's geospatial functionality. Their work included improving the performance of geometry processing, adding comments for clarity, and addressing late binding issues within the code. Furthermore, they debugged and reverted a change related to the `rasterio` library, ensuring the code's compatibility with external dependencies. Their focus appears to be on refining core functionalities related to geographic data manipulation and external integrations.
geospatialopenstreetmapgisstreet-networksoverpass-api
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