Ross Nicoll
Software Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
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RockstarRoss Nicoll is a seasoned software engineer and engineering manager based in London with 11 years of experience building and leading development efforts. He combines practical software development and research experience with hands-on leadership as a Software Engineering Lead. As one of the three main developers of Dogecoin, he brings real-world cryptocurrency and open-source collaboration expertise to complex, distributed systems. Ross is an active contributor across multiple open-source projects, pairing a pragmatic engineering approach with community-minded stewardship. He is known for balancing day-to-day delivery with long-term technical direction, often contributing subtle architectural improvements that pay dividends in maintainability and reliability.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (82)
namecoin10
bitcoin-core10
cryptocurrency10
distributed-ledger10
webserver10
smart-contracts10
build-process10
federated10
corda10
p2p10
wallet10
javascript10
cryptocurrencies10
file-sharing10
currency10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rnicoll/libdohj
Dec 2020 - Feb 2022
Java library for adding altcoin support to bitcoinj
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 1 year 1 month
bitcoinjjava-librarybitcoinjavaaltcoin
rnicoll/cate
Jan 2015 - Jan 2022
Cross-chain Atomic Transaction Engine
Contributions:3 releases, 10 PRs, 86 pushes in 7 years 1 month
blockchaintransactionchaincross-chainatomic
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