Nick Lucas
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Lucas is a Senior Product Engineer based in London with 10 years of full-stack experience focused on TypeScript, React, and Node.js, currently shaping product experiences at Framer. He blends hands-on engineering and team leadership—having led a six-person team at Parameta—to deliver internal tooling, client portals, and data-driven systems across cloud, CI/CD, and analytics stacks. A core contributor to the popular tRPC project, Nick has enhanced react-query integrations, polymorphic routes, and docs, bringing real-world API ergonomics to open-source tooling. He champions lean delivery, product ownership, and automated testing, and has practical experience applying generative AI across engineering workflows. Comfortable across mobile, web, and backend domains, he pairs pragmatic delivery with a knack for mentoring and scaling developer practices.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Buckinghamshire New UniversityPart Time MSc Computer Science, Part Time MSc Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London
Github Skills (10)
trpc10
typescript10
nextjs10
typescripts10
api10
react-query10
react10
typescript-types10
documentation9
nodejs9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
trpc/trpc
Dec 2022 - Jun 2026
🧙♀️ Move Fast and Break Nothing. End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 337 reviews, 149 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nick implemented features and enhancements within the tRPC framework, focusing on the react-query package. They added support for polymorphic route/mutation/query interfaces, integrated CORS support for the standalone adapter, and added support for metadata merging. Additionally, the user refactored existing documentation and introduced new guides for react, nextjs, and client integrations. The user also made a number of fixes to the core and react-query packages, as well as documentation, and added support for different content types.
typesafetypescriptapinextjsprisma
Nick-Lucas/gapstack
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
The missing utilities and tools for React and the Javascript/Typescript ecosystem
Contributions:129 commits, 37 PRs, 232 pushes in 4 months
javascriptreacttypescript
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