Nico D'cotta
Senior Backend Engineer - Payments at Monzo Bank
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNico D'cotta is a Senior Backend Engineer based in London with seven years building resilient payment and crypto systems at companies like Monzo and Blockchain.com. He combines hands-on delivery—designing ledgers, onboarding new crypto assets, and shipping payments features—with security-first infrastructure work such as multi-party authorization, web-edge DDoS controls, and reproducible builds using Nix. Known for owning solutions end-to-end, he has led company-wide refactors and introduced new tooling to reduce single-operator risks in critical key ceremonies. Comfortable operating across product and incident response, Nico brings practical expertise in scalable, auditable systems and a penchant for adopting emerging tech to solve real operational problems.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle de LondresMaster of Engineering - MEng Computing, Master of Engineering - MEng Computing at Imperial College LondonGeneral Scientific Baccalaureate - Engineering Sciences Engineering Sciences - Maths specialty, General Scientific Baccalaureate - Engineering Sciences Engineering Sciences - Maths specialty at Lycée Français de Madrid
Spanish, English, Portuguese, French
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Github Skills (141)
nix10
fuse10
blob-storage10
intellij-idea10
malware10
dns10
linux10
nixos10
adblock10
nix-flake10
service-discovery10
vault10
seaweedfs10
kubernetes10
horizontal-scaling10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cottand/selfhosted
Jul 2023 - Jul 2026
My selfhosted homelab
Contributions:10 PRs, 571 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years
homelabnixosnomad-cluster
Cottand/markov-lock-simulation
Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 12 commits, 14 pushes in 11 months
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