Nigel Rook
Senior Software Engineer at Super
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNigel Rook is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 10 years of professional experience building reliable, production-grade cloud and embedded systems. He has deep systems expertise from early embedded and firmware testing work through low-latency trading systems to large-scale IoT platforms, having driven core platform development in Erlang, Elixir, C# and C++. Nigel has led platform migrations to Kubernetes, championed security and threat modeling for cloud services, and helped launch Twilio Microvisor after Electric Imp's acquisition. He is comfortable across the stack—cloud orchestration, containerised deployments and device-facing firmware—and has a track record of improving performance and maintainability through pragmatic architecture and functional programming techniques. Colleagues know him for taking technical ownership of complex refactors (notably a calculations engine at Trayport) and for combining hands-on coding with operational uptime responsibility. He holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Warwick.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Warwick
Github Skills (58)
python10
mqtt10
linux10
internet-of-things10
asyncio10
python-app10
iot10
home-assistant10
raspberry-pi10
home-automation10
polymer9
documentation9
jekyll9
frontend8
continuous-integration8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
NigelRook/home-assistant
Dec 2017 - Feb 2024
:house_with_garden: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 3 months
raspberry-pipythonhousegardenmqtt
NigelRook/SmartClimate
Nov 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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