Nick Pope
British, 23, Software Engineer for GroupSpaces Ltd, Director for Retiarius Ltd.
| Headline: | Engineer |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://www.nickpope.me.uk/ |
| Industries: | Computing, Entertainment, Information Technology, Internet |
| Skills: | AJAX, Business, C/C++, Computer Engineering, Database Administration, Databases, Design, Engineering, English, Facebook platform, French, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Perl, PHP, Software Engineering, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Web design, Web Development |
| Location: | Oxford, UK |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding hot stories, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Helping friends, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Trading services |
| Schools: | Imperial College London |
FEATURED STARTUP
GroupSpaces
GroupSpaces
GroupSpaces provides powerful, easy-to-use online tools that take the pain out of managing clubs, societies, associations and other groups.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Growth
FULL BIO
Software Engineer with particular interest in Internet technologies.
Studied MEng Computing at Imperial College London, Software Engineer at GroupSpaces Ltd, Director of Internet consultancy Retiarius Ltd, member of Fellwanderers - a group of hill walkers.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | GroupSpaces Ltd |
| Position: | Software Engineer |
| Time period: | November 2008 - Present |
| Description: | Developer for the web start-up GroupSpaces. |
| Employer: | Retiarius Ltd |
| Position: | Director |
| Time period: | June 2006 - Present |
| Description: | Web design and IT consultancy |
| Employer: | IBM UK Ltd |
| Position: | WebSphere MQ JMS Performance Analyst |
| Time period: | April 2007 - September 2007 |
| Description: | Testing performance of WebSphere MQ Java Messaging Service. |
| Employer: | Lydden Management Ltd |
| Position: | Consultant to Army Recruiting and Training Division |
| Time period: | June 2005 - September 2005 |
| Description: | Producing simulations to assist with training pipeline optimisation/consulting on simulation package suitability |
EDUCATION
| University: | Imperial College London |
| Time period: | 2004 - 2008 |
| Degree: | Computing, MEng |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Hiking, Trekking. |
| Clubs: | Fellwanderers |
Nick's Startups (1)
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Retiarius
Website design and construction company, specialising in custom requirements. Also provide graphic design, education and consultancy services.
Nick is Following (5)
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Songbird
Songbird is an open, customizable music player. It is built on the Mozilla core and supports extension and Add-Ons.
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Insight: A Semantic Filesystem
An innovative semantic file system, originally written for a Masters thesis. Details are currently available at http://www.dmi.me.uk/insight/
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Selective Twitter Status
Selective Twitter Status lets you update your Facebook status from Twitter - BUT you can choose which tweets you want - just end a tweet with #fb when you want to post it as your Facebook status - simple!
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Nick's Contacts (4)
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Jof Arnold
Nuclear robotics, russian spacecraft, motorsport, androids, fuel injections systems and now the web.
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Harjeet Taggar
Englishman in San Francisco, 22, Y Combinator Alum, working on startup Auctomatic.
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Dave Ingram
British, 22, in final year of MEng Computing at Imperial, working on a database-backed filesystem for my thesis, and involved in a number of other projects, including Imperial Entrepreneurs and my own company, Retiarius.