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Nicholas is a Geospatial Data Engineer at the UK Hydrographic Office, where he designs and builds automated pipelines using deep learning, distributed computing, and serverless architectures. His professional work sits at the intersection of large-scale data engineering and geospatial science, with a mathematical grounding from a Masters in Physics at the University of York.

Beyond his professional role, Nicholas applies the same rigour and standards to a wide range of personal projects. His multi-machine Debian-native homelab running across bare-metal amd64 and arm64 hardware reflects end-to-end ownership of a production-grade network, and is made up of nginx reverse proxies, a VPN, an internal DNS, centralised data services, mail infrastructure, and a suite of self-written Flask applications all packaged and managed through a self-hosted APT repository. Security is treated seriously, from an offline X.509 root CA to GPG key management via Nitrokey hardware token.

His personal projects span a broad range: a full-stack deanery management system for Ivybridge Deanery with a formal issue-tracking state machine; a rail journey tracker following a medallion data architecture ingesting both CalDAV and photographic data; a household purchasing ingestion system drawing from email and Paperless-ngx document store; a personal finance and FIRE projection suite; a suite of liturgical tools underpinned by a custom festal calendar library; and a geospatial mapping practice rooted in nature.

Across all of this, Nicholas works with a Debian-native philosophy with Bash being his natural habitat.