Nick Ruest
Chief Of Staff at Global Business Advisors
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Ruest is a consultant, entrepreneur, and builder with 15 years of experience helping companies accelerate growth through AI and agent-based systems. Based in Old Toronto, he blends hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source archival tooling like DocNow/twarc—with business leadership as founder of Global Business Advisors and co-founder of the Agentics Foundation. He teaches and mentors MBA students at Rotman, translating advanced enterprise AI concepts into practical strategies for executives. Nick’s background spans startups to corporate sales and operations, giving him a rare mix of technical depth, go-to-market acumen, and product instincts. An active collaborator in web-archiving communities, he brings both rigorous data-processing skills and a proven track record of client-facing impact.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - Communications & Media Studies, Bachelor of Arts - Communications & Media Studies at Carleton UniversityMaster of Management - Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Master of Management - Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Smith School of Business at Queen's University
Github Skills (6)
data-transformation10
json10
file-input10
python10
geojson10
data-analysis9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
DocNow/twarc
Oct 2013 - Aug 2018
A command line tool (and Python library) for archiving Twitter JSON
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 32 comments in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on developing utilities for processing and analyzing Twitter data in JSON format. They created tools to convert Twitter data into GeoJSON format, remove limit warnings, filter out retweets, extract tweet text, and extract URLs from retweets. Their work involved parsing JSON data, implementing data transformations, and writing Python scripts. The user also demonstrated knowledge of file input/output and data manipulation techniques.
command-line-toolpythontwitter
Islandora/islandora_solution_pack_newspaper
Mar 2014 - Mar 2016
A paged content collection that is similar to the Book solution pack, but designed to make it easier to navigate between issues and pages of a single publication - closer to the nature of a newspaper or magazine - as opposed to a book
Contributions:59 commits, 19 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years
islandora-legacysimilarnavigatenaturenewspaper
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