Tom Nick
VP Of Engineering at re:cap
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Nick is a VP of Engineering based in Berlin with 12 years of experience leading product-driven teams and shipping full-stack systems across startups and global platforms. He’s currently building a funding marketplace for the subscription economy, blending product, engineering leadership and capital markets thinking to enable non-dilutive revenue financing. Prior roles at Google and early-stage startups show his range from large-scale e-commerce features on YouTube to founding-era engineering that grew assets under management and novel interactive design tooling. Technically hands-on, he contributes to open-source projects like markdown-pdf (improving syntax highlighting integrations) and has deep front-end expertise with TypeScript, React and WebGL alongside backend infra experience. Known for growing engineers and preferring in-house, product-focused teams over outsourced development, he combines operator grit with a taste for elegant UX and real-time interactive systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 1.8, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 1.8 at Technische Universität Berlin
English, German, French
Github Skills (10)
css10
markdown10
pdf10
javascript10
markdown-it10
converter9
cli8
template-engine7
templater7
template-tags7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alanshaw/markdown-pdf
May 2014 - May 2014
:page_facing_up: Markdown to PDF converter
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to improving the markdown-to-PDF conversion process, focusing on syntax highlighting. They integrated highlight.js and later pygments for code highlighting within the generated PDF. The user also modified the CSS and adjusted the code to handle different highlighting libraries and case sensitivity.
markdown-to-pdftemplatepdfpdf-generationto-markdown
TN1ck/super-sudoku
Jan 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 237 commits, 15 PRs in 6 years
full-featuredreactweb-interfacesudokuanime
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