Nick Verlinde
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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RockstarNick Verlinde is a software engineering team lead with 12+ years of hands-on experience building reliable, auditable production systems across fintech, commerce, and the public sector. He specializes in Java/JVM and event-driven architectures, with a strong track record in investment banking where correctness and uptime are non-negotiable. Nick has led and mentored small engineering teams, instituted solid practices around clean code, testing, CI/CD, and operated mission-critical systems under pressure. An early adopter of LLMs, he built the popular CLI tool Chatblade (~2.6k stars), giving him a pragmatic view of where AI adds value versus noise. Today he focuses on practical AI automation for SMEs—integrating AI into existing workflows to reduce manual, text-heavy work without breaking what already works. Based in Antwerp, he combines startup agility with enterprise-grade discipline to deliver dependable software.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (46)
chatgpt10
ruby10
homebrew10
driver10
cli10
react-components9
java9
rethinkdb9
material-ui9
react9
docker8
material-design8
javascript8
kotlin7
caching7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
npiv/dots
Feb 2015 - Sep 2021
Contributions:9 pushes in 6 years 8 months
npiv/joldem
Apr 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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