Nick Sarbicki
VP Of Engineering at Sightline Climate (CTVC)
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Sarbicki is a VP of Engineering with 12 years' experience building and scaling data-driven, cloud-native products for startups and enterprise clients from London. He has led engineering, product and data teams to triple revenue annually, support millions of daily data points, and grow user bases to 80k+ with an NPS of 90, while driving migrations to microservices, Docker and Kubernetes. A hands-on full-stack developer and open-source contributor, he has improved user-facing tooling in projects like the Mu Python editor and made maintainability-focused fixes to Elastalert. Nick frequently teaches and mentors — from professional sessions to coaching kids in coding — and administers the official Python Slack, reflecting his commitment to community and developer education. He combines strategic leadership with day-to-day engineering craft, hiring and scaling teams that consistently deliver reliable, product-led outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Open Study Mathematics, Open Study Mathematics at The Open UniversityA Level Biology Chemistry Sport Science History, A Level Biology Chemistry Sport Science History at St Benedict's SchoolBSc Biomedical Sciences, BSc Biomedical Sciences at King's College London
English
Stackoverflow
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35questions
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Github Skills (33)
editors10
qt10
python10
amazon-elasticsearch10
editor10
refactor10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
optmization10
performance-optimization10
optimisation10
elasticsearch10
refactoring10
optimization10
elasticsearch-api10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mu-editor/mu
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
A small, simple editor for beginner Python programmers. Written in Python and Qt5.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 43 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the Mu editor by implementing features and fixing bugs related to the user interface and functionality. They added features like closeable tabs and keyboard shortcuts for common actions. The user also addressed an error related to zooming and corrected a typo in a shortcut implementation, improving the overall user experience and stability of the editor. Furthermore, they worked on extending the file saving functionality of the application by implementing logic to add the '.py' extension to new files if it was not already present.
pythonpython-beginnerpygameqt5simple-editor
Yelp/elastalert
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Easy & Flexible Alerting With ElasticSearch
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to improving the codebase by refactoring and optimizing existing functionality within the `elastalert` project. Their work included removing redundant code, improving code consistency with the use of 'None' for empty returns, and fixing a minor bug related to key selection. They also addressed code quality by adding TODO comments to flag potential areas for improvement. This demonstrates a focus on code maintainability and efficiency within the project.
alertingflexiblekibanaelasticsearch
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