Nick Hope
Lead Backend Engineer at SetMenu
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Hope is a Lead Backend Engineer based in Groningen with 12 years of experience building full-stack systems, primarily in TypeScript and PHP. He currently leads backend efforts at SetMenu and OrderPay, combining hands-on coding with team-level technical leadership to ship fast, customer-facing features. His background includes CTO and freelance roles, giving him a strong product-oriented mindset and an appetite for pragmatic, value-driven engineering. Nick excels in fast-paced environments where delivering measurable impact matters more than perfect design, and he often bridges product and platform concerns. He brings formal Computer Science training from Newcastle University and a track record of evolving from developer to technical lead across startups and scale-ups. Colleagues would describe him as the kind of engineer who balances delivery speed with maintainable systems and a knack for simplifying complex workflows.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Newcastle University
Github Skills (94)
cameraview10
docker-container10
docker-compose10
documented10
camera10
gestures10
cli10
android-library10
camera2-api10
camera-preview10
renderscript10
game-engine9
linux9
angular9
windows9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
NickToony/cs-topdown
Aug 2014 - Sep 2018
Contributions:19 releases, 343 commits, 266 pushes in 4 years 2 months
NickToony/dont-get-crushed
Jul 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:25 commits in 1 year 3 months
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