Experience · Nicola Asuni

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Software engineering leadership across architecture, platform delivery, security, and open-source product development.

Professional Experience

Company: Civica
Provided staff-level engineering support for production-grade systems and platform capabilities across a 140+ engineer organisation.
Delivered a feature-complete, production-ready Payment Gateway backend API service in Go, including automation, configuration management, secrets management, and Kubernetes deployment pipelines.
Built continuous-delivery pipelines to migrate a legacy application onto an AWS Kubernetes-based internal platform using Argo CD.
Established a central knowledge base for 10 teams and 17 products, including architectural diagrams in PlantUML/C4 format.
Identified, documented, and prioritized dozens of technical engineering improvement opportunities.
Mentored several engineers directly.
Contributed to the Company Engineering Handbook and participated in LLM (AI) interest-group initiatives.

Company: Vonage, part of Ericsson
Led cross-department initiatives across architecture, security, and operational engineering.
Authored engineering policies, security standards, and operating procedures used by distributed teams.
Advised engineering leadership on architecture direction, technical risk, and implementation strategy.
Produced proof-of-concept solutions and translated them into delivery-ready implementation plans.
Acted as security liaison for API Engineering, supporting compliance, resilience, and service continuity objectives.
Designed and maintained internal tooling for incident, change, operational, and vulnerability management workflows.
Contributed to Architecture Guild, Security Champions, GitHub Governance, and Go special-interest collaboration.
Facilitated internal technical knowledge sharing and mentoring through recurring engineering talks and reusable Go tooling.

Company: Vonage
Led the API Platform OSS (numbers) team across planning, execution, people development, and stakeholder alignment.
Improved team effectiveness by introducing consistent delivery processes and operating practices.
Contributed to a broad portfolio of platform initiatives spanning reliability, integration, and developer enablement.
Built cross-team engineering tools that improved collaboration and reduced repeated implementation effort.
Advanced open-source adoption through projects including gosrvlib and numkey.

Company: Opsview Ltd
Managed multiple engineering teams with responsibility for line management, hiring, and technical coordination.
Developed a mentoring and knowledge-sharing culture that strengthened team capability and delivery quality.
Supported refactoring initiatives and helped standardize project structure and engineering practices.
Led the organisation through continuous-delivery migration activities.

Company: GENOMICS plc
Led engineering and research software delivery, reporting directly to executive leadership.
Established standards covering Agile execution, automated testing, versioning, metrics, logging, and build automation.
Designed and implemented production components in C, C++, Go, Python, R, JavaScript, and Bash.
Standardized CI/CD pipelines and introduced VariantKey, RegionKey, and ESID.
Reorganized repositories and built data pipelines to improve maintainability and development flow.

Company: MIRACL UK LTD
Led distributed engineers across time zones and partnered directly with executive technical leadership.
Raised software quality through test-driven development, coding standards, versioning discipline, and delivery automation.
Standardized CI/CD builds using Docker and Bamboo.
Applied cryptography expertise to launch milagro-crypto-c.
Led development of Go-based single sign-on tooling, including a SAML Identity Provider.
Built open-source and internal tools for NATS service testing and authentication load-testing workflows.

Company: Cognitive Logic Limited / InfoSum
Supported early-stage product direction through technical discovery and rapid prototyping.
Worked closely with company leadership to evaluate feasibility across business and technical dimensions.

Company: MediaSift Limited
Delivered enhancements and production fixes across a large big-data project portfolio.
Engineered solutions in PHP, Go, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and shell scripting.
Improved release quality and delivery flow through GoCD-based continuous-delivery pipelines.
Released open-source end-to-end testing tooling.

Company: Tecnick.com LTD
Lead technical strategy, software development, and operational direction.
Design, maintain, and evolve open-source software used across enterprise and developer ecosystems.
Maintain projects including gogen and tc-lib-pdf.

Company: Fubra Limited
Contributed software and infrastructure improvements for the CatN vCluster cloud-hosting platform.
Built open-source operational tools including ServerUsage, TCPWebLog, NetsGraph, LogPipe, cmdMQ, and RackMap.
Automated platform operations with Ansible and supported performance testing with Tsung.
Strengthened platform security through cryptographic controls and multi-factor authentication patterns.

Company: Tecnick.com S.r.l.
Directed technical and administrative operations, including planning, communication, resourcing, and budget coordination.
Delivered custom software solutions for international organisations.
Created and integrated major platforms including TCPDF and TCExam.
Built AIOCP, a CMS and e-commerce platform with hundreds of modules.

Company: Multiple organisations and freelance roles
Worked as computer technician, IT consultant, teacher, Java lab tutor, freelance programmer, researcher, and web developer.
Created Technick.net, later expanded into AllPinouts.org and CircuitsArchive.org.