Nick Houghton
Staff Engineer at Stripe
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Houghton is a hands-on staff engineer and architect based in Melbourne with over a decade of experience building scalable products and the teams, processes and culture that sustain them. He co-founded Mean Labs and built the widely used API testing SaaS Sandbox, and previously helped launch the award‑winning digital identity platform Digital iD as technical co‑founder. At Catapult and Stripe he has focused on platform-oriented solutions and scaling delivery capabilities, bringing pragmatic architecture and engineering principles to cross-company products. Nick thrives working across code, CI, patterns, and people, believing product engineering succeeds only when tech and teams are designed together. He combines startup grit with enterprise delivery experience, making him adept at turning ambiguous, security‑sensitive problems into reliable, user-focused systems.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Systems, Bachelor of Information Systems at Monash University
Github Skills (200)
testing10
gradle-plugin10
middleware10
database-migrations10
flyway10
groovy10
kubernetes-client10
apm10
stdout10
rest-api10
aurora10
yaml10
database-migration10
kubernetes10
sandbox10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
nhoughto/testlinking
Mar 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:275 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 7 months
bsycorp/kees
Nov 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:4 reviews, 57 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 11 months
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