Nicholas Bruning

@thetron
Melbourne, Australia
He/Him

Rubyist

GitHub user

Electronics

Mechanical Keyboard Enthusiast

Game Player

People Manager

Twitch Streamer

React

Remote Worker

Coding

Consultant

Manager

Volunteer

Mentor

UX Design

Software Engineering

I mostly like making software 💾 and soft-cheese 🧀. I just need to be creating something whether that's software, hardware, food, events, whatever.

For just over 15 years I've been building a variety of web applications, across a spectrum of domains and scales.

If I can, I love working with Ruby, I'm also occaisionally involved with RailsGirls, and was an organiser for both RubyConf AU 2017 and 2018.

Resume

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Jun 2021 - Present

Engineering Manager, Qantas

Mar 2019 - Jun 2021

Engineering Lead, Qantas

Aug 2018 - Mar 2019

Senior Software Engineer, Qantas

Aug 2015 - Jun 2018

Software Engineering Consultant, Cogent.co

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SmartGardenWatering is still one of the projects that I'm most proud of. My first ever Ruby on Rails app (started on 1.x, and no bundler! 😱), this project kicked off a career-spanning love of Ruby,...

So excited to experience my first Hack Week at REA this week, and we took home home the grand prize! 🏆🏆🏆 Really proud of our team, Bean Counter, who in just 3 days pulled together a hardware & soft...

So, we did a thing: 420 attendees, 18 speakers, and 2 massive days: #rubyconf_au 2018 was an immensely special event, more than 13 months in the planning. As much as I would like to take all the cr...

My first ever attempt at streaming. I was inspired by my niece diving into the world of Twitch, and had been looking for an excuse to play my old favourite adventure games - particularly Indiana Jo...