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Nicholas Blair

blair.nicholas@gmail.com


Technical Captain

Cloud Systems Specialist

F# Evangelist


I provide architectural guidance & deliver technical excellence. I am well-practiced building solutions with AWS.

I am passionate about F# because of its power to produce correct & concise code. I use functional programming principles at the macro-level, resulting in event-driven architectures that promise resilience and flexibility. I am comfortable designing and working with cloud-native, distributed systems, and often found by the whiteboard or coffee machine.


Head of Software Engineering @ ElasticStage 2025

Delivered AWS modernisation roadmap

Improved cross-department collaboration

Seeded CloudCannon + Astro CMS solution

Head of Technology @ TotallyMoney 2018-2025

Embedded custom dev tooling for rapid prototyping

Ported legacy projects to AWS CDK

Pioneered OIDC auth pattern across the stack

Involved throughout hiring process

Open-sourced two F# libraries

Track record of successful project delivery

Speaker at F# meet up on DynamoDB

Tech Lead @ TotallyMoney 2016-2018

Key contributor to core MyAccount product

Architected CRM scheduling platform for 6M customers

Hosted internal AWS workshops

Authored and optimised workflows in CircleCI

Senior Developer @ AdBrain 2016

Big Data / Micro services / Azure

Senior Developer @ ThoughtWorks 2014

Client-consultant context / Cross-functional teams

Senior Developer @ Media Ingenuity 2012-2014

Developer @ Wiggle 2011-2012

Developer @ Red Letter Days 2008-2011


Education

Bsc Information Management & Computing @ Loughborough 2007

Diploma of Professional Studies / Year in Industry @ Newham Corporate Council 2005


Skills

#dotnet #fsharp #csharp #aws #lambda #sqs #sns #cdk #eventbridge #dynamodb #sql #oidc #typescript #circleci #github-actions #playwright #api-gateway #docker


LinkedIn / profile

blair55.github.io / blog

rightresu.lt / pet project

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