Nick Powell
Senior Software Engineer at Kraken
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Powell is a senior back-end engineer based in London with 12+ years of production experience building Python-first services, plus Go and DevOps expertise for resilient, well-tested APIs. He currently develops GraphQL/REST and data/ML-backed image analysis features at Kraken, supporting mobile products with over 2M monthly active users, and previously improved developer experience and CI/CD tooling with Kubernetes and Docker at Thought Machine. His background includes automating trading and data pipelines in finance and a PhD in Medical Image Computing, giving him a strong mix of research-led problem solving and pragmatic engineering. Nick is comfortable across the stack—from low-level data processing and ML integration to platform tooling—and is particularly focused on shipping reliable, customer-facing features under fast release cadences.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Bioengineering with Medical Physics, Master of Science (MSc) Bioengineering with Medical Physics at Imperial College LondonUniversity College London
Github Skills (62)
kibana9
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build-system9
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bazel9
mouse9
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high-performance9
code-intelligence9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nmpowell/mousemorph
May 2014 - Jun 2016
Tools for MRI mouse brain morphometry
Contributions:53 commits, 28 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years
brainneuroimagingmousemrimorphometry
nmpowell/carbon-intensity-forecast-tracking
Apr 2023 - Jan 2025
The reliability of the National Grid's Carbon Intensity forecast
Contributions:6 PRs, 47 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
climate-dataelectricity-generationgit-scraping
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