Nick Lombard
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
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RockstarNick Lombard is an entrepreneurial software engineer with 14+ years building scalable web and mobile systems from the edge to the backend, currently running JigSoft from Gauteng, South Africa. He is polyglot across Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript and more, and has a proven track record of pragmatic engineering—resolving high-throughput streaming and RF data challenges using Redis and Node.js to reliably process tens of thousands of events per second. An active open-source maintainer and contributor, Nick has improved testing, API frameworks and HTTP clients in well-known projects (e.g., Restler, httpful, superagent and Javassist), blending deep backend work with front-end UX improvements like hierarchical drag-and-drop. Comfortable in systems integration, data recovery, VOIP/AST platforms and embedded microprocessor solutions, he prefers solving “missing puzzle pieces” rather than forcing one-size-fits-all tech choices. Colleagues describe him as hands-on, fast to deliver working code, and oddly only rendered vulnerable by sleep.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (67)
jquery-plugin10
apim10
url-routing10
testing10
http10
bash10
httpc10
phpunit10
javas10
http-client10
junit10
rest-api10
refactoring10
composer10
javascript10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Respect/Rest
May 2012 - Mar 2019
Thin controller for RESTful applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:83 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the development of the Respect/Rest framework, focusing on core functionalities and improving its robustness. Their work included adding a public folder and sample application, ensuring a catchall route receives parameters, and creating unit tests. They also implemented basic content negotiation response headers, enhancing the framework's ability to handle different content types.
restrestful
isocra/TableDnD
Sep 2012 - Nov 2021
jQuery plug-in to drag and drop rows in HTML tables
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the jQuery plugin, specifically for drag and drop interactions within HTML tables. Their contributions centered around implementing a hierarchical drag-and-drop feature (hierarchyDnD), including the creation of visual indentation elements. Additionally, the user added direction detection and sensitivity adjustments to improve the drag-and-drop user experience. The work also included refactoring existing code for better maintainability and data serialization improvements.
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