Nick Kirby
Technical Lead at OVO
Shrewsbury, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Kirby is a Technical Lead with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently leading delivery at OVO after progressing there from Senior Software Engineer. He has a strong background in building reliable, well-tested systems across retail and consumer platforms, having contributed to engineering teams at AO, Purplebricks and Remote New Media. Nick pairs hands-on development with team coaching and a pragmatic focus on quality and maintainability, informed by a BSc in Computing & IT (Software Engineering) from The Open University. His career path—from early technical support through developer roles to leadership—gives him a practical, customer-focused perspective on product engineering. Based in Shrewsbury, he’s comfortable navigating both legacy constraints and modern delivery practices to ship resilient software. An under-the-radar strength is his blend of operational experience and developer craftsmanship, which helps teams reduce incidents while accelerating feature flow.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) - Computing & IT (Software Engineering), Bachelor of Science (BSc) - Computing & IT (Software Engineering) at The Open University
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
NRKirby/NRKirby.github.io
May 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:94 pushes, 10 branches, 3 comments in 5 years 6 months
NRKirby/AzureCollected
May 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:267 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
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