Nigel Hanlon
Software Developer at Contentful
Mullingar, Ireland
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolNigel Hanlon is a seasoned Software Developer with over a decade of experience building bespoke, cloud-native systems for startups, enterprises and government organisations. He specializes in Node.js and AWS serverless architectures, with hands-on experience across GraphQL, REST APIs, PostgreSQL/PostGIS and container orchestration using Kubernetes and Docker. Nigel blends full‑stack skills (React, SCSS) with infrastructure-as-code (CDK, Terraform) and CI pipelines to deliver resilient production services, and his work has been selected for the GitHub Arctic Code Vault. Comfortable as both a collaborative team member and technical lead, he has delivered projects from COVID contact-tracing platforms to large content migrations and IoT-enabled mapping systems. Based in Mullingar, Ireland, he pairs a pragmatic engineering approach with a long-standing interest in open source and geospatial systems.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Software Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering at National University of Ireland, Maynooth
English
Github Skills (104)
windows10
fastify10
javascript10
linux10
api10
js10
rocket10
macos10
nodejs10
lists10
metalsmith10
plugin10
jwt9
defaults9
overhead9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nigelhanlon/simpleblog
Sep 2017 - Jun 2022
A simple GraphQL powered blog example
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 9 months
typescriptblog-examplegraphql
nigelhanlon/emoji-weather
Nov 2017 - Jun 2023
A simple emoji based weather map
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 7 months
emojireactmapweather-map
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