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 (189)
kotlin-language10
nix10
fuse10
powerdns10
blob-storage10
coredns10
seek10
openstack-swift10
intellij-idea10
blob-store10
backblaze10
dns10
gossip10
encryption10
glusterfs10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Cottand/KEEP
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Kotlin Evolution and Enhancement Process
Contributions:48 commits, 7 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 month
kotlinevolutionenhancement
cottand/web-portfolio
Oct 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:154 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 11 months
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