Nick Nicolaou
Founder & Principal Consultant at Escientia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolNick Nicolaou is a seasoned founder and principal consultant with 14 years of focused experience building cloud-based SaaS solutions for the financial services sector from Sydney. He has a proven track record of founding and exiting software businesses, scaling products like Rapid Web Publisher into government and enterprise deployments and now leading the ASSIST suite for commissions and broker management. A hands-on operator who has led IT transformations as a CIO, Nick combines product marketing discipline with deep operational know-how—renegotiating vendor ecosystems and moving legacy services to the cloud to enable rapid growth. He blends advisory strategy with execution, having built sales and delivery teams across APAC and the UK and managed high‑value client portfolios in financial advice. Known for pragmatic product management and an entrepreneurial start-from-scratch mentality, he pairs technical platform thinking with commercial outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Business Planning and Management, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Business Planning and Management at NSW Enterprise Workshop Entrepreneurship Program - University of Technology SydneyCertified Product Marketing Manager, Technology Product Development and Marketing Framework, Certified Product Marketing Manager, Technology Product Development and Marketing Framework at Pragmatic InstituteDiploma of Financial Services (Financial Planning), Diploma of Financial Services (Financial Planning) at MLC Advice EducationPost Graduate Certificate in Marketing, Post Graduate Certificate in Marketing at Western Sydney University
Github Skills (28)
mozilla10
android9
aac8
stream8
java8
encoder8
udp7
opus7
streaming6
kotlin6
amf5
h2645
rtsp4
rtmp4
h2654
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dotnick/Java-Paxos
Feb 2012 - May 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 2 pushes in 9 years 5 months
dotnick/material-calendarview
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 15 days
kotlincalendarviewandroid-libraryandroid
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