Nick Shearer
Contract Software Engineer at Multitudes
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Shearer is a contract software engineer with 17 years of experience building reusable, testable and scalable web applications since 2000. Based in Auckland, he has deep expertise across the full development lifecycle, particularly in Node.js, Typescript, microservices, UI/UX and OAuth/OIDC integrations. He’s known for pragmatic migrations of legacy systems to modern platforms, automating CI/CD and improving developer workflows to boost quality and velocity. Recent contract work spans analytics integrations, game-related projects in Lua, React Native mobile apps and Home Assistant integrations, showing a wide tech palette beyond standard web stacks. Colleague-friendly and detail-oriented, he enjoys fixing broken git repositories and crafting tricky regular expressions—small skills that often unblock teams. His BSc in Computer Science and Physics underpins a methodical approach to performance and tooling improvements across cloud and on-prem products.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, Physics, BSc, Computer Science, Physics at University of Canterbury
Github Skills (99)
extensible10
chrome-plugin10
javascript10
text-based10
angular10
angularjs10
forum10
discourse10
compilation10
modular9
qt9
rpg9
linux9
istanbul9
postgresql9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
njs50/flex-mud-client
Feb 2009 - Jun 2013
Contributions:45 commits in 4 years 4 months
njs50/tfecat
Jun 2020 - Mar 2025
The Forests Edge Item Catalog
Contributions:26 PRs, 603 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 10 months
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