Nick Long
Senior Software Engineer at Seccl
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Long is a Senior Software Engineer based in Exeter who transitioned from a decade in education into backend and full-stack development via a Makers apprenticeship, earning Distinction and a 2024 "Technical Brilliance" award. He specialises in Node.js/TypeScript, AWS serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS), Terraform, and is driving migrations to Kubernetes while leading delivery of high-scale customer acquisition journeys across web, mobile and backend. As a tech lead and hands-on engineer he has onboarded tens of thousands of users, built monitoring dashboards, and represented engineering in architecture and ISO compliance conversations. His background as a teacher and head of data gives him a rare combination of mentorship, clarity in requirements, and data-informed decision making. He values clean, well-tested code, API-first design, and building systems that scale sustainably to deliver measurable customer and environmental impact.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Hons, Zoology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Hons, Zoology at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddLevel 4 Apprenticeship, Software Developer, Level 4 Apprenticeship, Software Developer at MakersTorquay Boys' Grammar SchoolPost Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE), Secondary Science (Biology), Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE), Secondary Science (Biology) at University of Exeter
Github Skills (8)
twitter9
react7
nodejs7
minecraft5
php4
laravel4
database3
refactor3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
EsraK1/Acebook-OVO
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:9 reviews, 42 commits, 24 PRs in 10 days
BorisYTTsang/cherimoyabnb
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Cherimoya Group Makersbnb Week 7 Project
Contributions:67 PRs, 53 pushes, 46 branches in 3 days
reactcssjavascriptnodejsweek-7
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