Summary
Nigel Tavendale is a senior software engineer with eight years of experience building large-scale data collection and processing systems, real-time networked services, and testing utilities across enterprise and defense domains. He combines deep systems programming (C/C++, C#, .NET) with modern web stacks (Typescript/React, REST APIs) and has hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, multi-threaded socket programming, MSSQL, and Windows driver development. Nigel has driven performance improvements and large-scale migrations—boosting telemetry collection throughput and modernizing deployment with Docker/Kubernetes—and has delivered critical features that helped win multi-million dollar enterprise deals. An experienced conference speaker and technical presenter active in Europe and the US, he also brings practical product empathy from consulting on EMR systems and mobile integrations. Based in Broomfield, CO, he pairs an engineering degree in electrical/electronics with a scientific background in chemistry, reflecting a methodical, cross-disciplinary approach to solving complex software problems.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Of Engineering With Honors, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor Of Engineering With Honors, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Canterbury