👋 Welcome to my website!
Thanks for visiting my site!
I'm Nicholas Griffin, a Senior Software Engineer from the UK, currently with the BBC.
About me
I'm a Full Stack Developer, leaning a bit more towards frontend work. My time outside of my main role is spent on various personal projects across the web.
Beyond development, I enjoy reading now and then and have a passion for discovering new music — mainly trying to outsmart the algorithms.
Feel free to explore more about me and my projects below.
What's going on?
Below you will find some of the blog posts that I have wrote (and just a few thoughts and links), I used to write a lot and I'm looking to write blog posts more about the projects that I am working on. There might not be a lot here but I hope that it will at least be interesting, at least to me.
So what is it that you do? 🤔
Well quite a few things, here are some of my favourite projects alongside my most recently updated GitHub repos:
I participate in a range of projects at the BBC. Most recently, I transitioned the BBC’s Open Source site to the WebCore service to enhance performance, maintainability, accessibility, and user experience. I also contribute to open-source projects, such as SQS Consumer, and help teams improve their experimentation capabilities.
At Accrosoft, I developed a custom CMS called AccroPress, a fully headless system with a React frontend and a Node.js/Express backend. Designed as a hosted service, it was used by various school and job sites worldwide. AccroPress also offered several microservices, including image processing, contact forms, and more.
While at Vacancy Filler, I collaborated with clients like Bouygues Construction UK to launch career site initiatives that attract and inform potential candidates about roles across their organization. I also worked with brands such as the Woodland Trust, Longleat, and the Devonshire Group, among others.
TechNutty was a technology news and reviews site that I started during college/uni in 2011, I ran it for some time as a side project and a way of experimenting with developement. Sadly, a few years back I did choose to shut down this site, so Ive included a link to wayback machine instead :)
Alongside my day job, I have a number of side projects that I work on, some of which are open source and can be found on my GitHub. I have a number of projects that I have worked on over the years, some of which are still in development, others are just experiments.
