Nick White

Nick White

Software Engineer from London, UK

About Me

I am a polyglot developer who likes simple solutions to difficult problems, living documentation, just-in-time design and the principles of software craftsmanship.

I believe I owe my success to a habit of ensuring I always have a deep understanding of the technologies I work with.

Experience

Triptease

Senior Software Engineer, 2024 - present

  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Cloudflare
  • BigQuery
  • PostgreSQL
  • Python
  • React.js

Designed and delivered a new version of Triptease Messages, a website messaging product for hotels, from scratch to general availability.

Migrated a terabyte-scale analytics pipeline from Airflow to BigQuery scheduled queries, introducing test coverage and backfilling historic data.

Triptease engineers work full-stack, including all development, ops and SRE, pair-programming in small autonomous squads.

DAACI

Senior Frontend Software Engineer, 2022 - 2024

  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • React.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • C++

Prototyped an AI-assisted browser-based digital audio workstation, using Web Audio and Web MIDI, TypeScript/React and PostgreSQL.

Supported UI design and implementation in VST/AU plugins using C++20 and the JUCE framework.

Triptease

Software Engineer, 2020 - 2022

  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Terraform
  • React.js
  • MongoDB

Worked on Triptease Personalization, a website messaging product for hotels, including message components, a rich WYSIWYG content editor, NoSQL database and CDN, event tracking and analytics platform.

Previously, built a feed of hotel prices and scaled it from scratch to serving a million prices a day from over 1,000 hotels. The prices were sourced from user tracking, screen-scraping and algorithmic inference.

Triptease engineers work full-stack, including all development, ops and SRE, pair-programming in small autonomous squads.

Codurance

Software Craftsman, 2019

Apprentice, 2018 - 2019

  • C++
  • Java
  • PostgreSQL

Worked in a team of consultants at a fintech, setting up CI pipelines, modernising existing C++ server-side infrastructure, and helping to build new Java microservices to replace PostgreSQL stored procedures.

As Apprentice, completed a three-month paid Academy program learning essential skills in software design, Extreme Programming practices, Clean Code, and Domain-Driven Design.

FilmLight

Software Developer, 2017 - 2018

Intern, 2016 - 2017

  • C
  • C++
  • *nix

Worked on button-mapping software for hardware interfaces on a film post-processing system. Worked across the full stack from usability testing and UI implementation down to optimising the display drivers. Wrote an xUnit-style unit test framework for the in-house scripting language to aid in testing my code.

As an intern, built automated testing harnesses, helped maintain the FilmLight intranet, and built developer workstations.

Education

Open University

Mathematics modules, 2022-present

Essential Mathematics 1 (2022, distinction)

Mathematical Methods (2024, distinction)

Essential Mathematics 2 (2025, distinction)

Analysing Data (2026, tbc)

University of Oxford

BA Music, 2013 - 2016

First-class honours; academic scholar, 2014-16.

Skills

Languages & Frameworks

JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, C++, Clojure, Kotlin

Databases

PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Google BigQuery, Elasticsearch

Infrastructure

Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Terraform, Airflow

Methodologies

Extreme Programming, Software Craftsmanship, Continuous Discovery

Projects

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