Nigel Runnels-moss
Co-Founder at TypeError
Harborough, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNigel Runnels-moss is a seasoned software craftsman and co-founder with 14+ years of experience leading platform and transformation work across startups and scale-ups in the UK. He combines hands-on polyglot engineering (Node.js, Clojure, Python, Ruby) with practical architecture and migration experience—moving monoliths to microservices, optimizing Docker images, and designing CI/CD on AWS, GCP and Azure. A long-standing advocate of XP practices, Nigel founded the London Code Dojo to coach TDD, refactoring and ensemble programming, and has mentored many engineers and led technical teams to raise code quality and delivery maturity. His work blends product thinking with organisational change—shifting clients from project to product models while enabling “shift-left” practices. Nigel is also an active open-source contributor and educator, having implemented and tested CoffeeScript koans and spoken at conferences like ProgsCon. Based in Harborough, he brings a collaborative, team-first approach that prioritises customer value and sustainable engineering culture.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
P.G.Dip. Information Technology, P.G.Dip. Information Technology at University of Leicester
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Github Skills (5)
data-manipulation10
coffeescript10
javascript9
functional-programming8
object-oriented-programming8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
sleepyfox/coffeescript-koans
Aug 2011 - Aug 2016
Koans: learn CoffeeScript by doing it
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:60 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nigel primarily focused on completing and testing various sections of the CoffeeScript Koans, which involve learning CoffeeScript through problem-solving exercises. Their contributions include adding and modifying code within the `AboutArrays.coffee`, `AboutFunctions.coffee`, `AboutObjects.coffee`, `AboutMutability.coffee`, `AboutHigherOrderFunctions.coffee`, `AboutInheritance.coffee` and `AboutApplyingWhatWeHaveLearnt.coffee` files, implementing and correcting CoffeeScript solutions to complete the koans. Further contributions were made to the `KoansRunner.html` and `ChromeReloadr.sh` files.
sleepyfox/code-dojo-39
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Code for the 39th London Code Dojo meetup in Oct 2016, Song refactoring kata
Contributions:40 commits, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 1 month
refactoring
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