David Nikel-shepherd
Principal Software Engineer at Wave Mobile Money (www.wave.com)
United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarDavid Nikel-shepherd is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience, currently focused on building radically affordable financial infrastructure for Africa as part of Wave mobile money. Based in the United Kingdom, he blends senior engineering leadership with hands-on product delivery in high-impact fintech environments. Known for driving scalable, resilient systems, he emphasizes pragmatic solutions that lower cost and increase accessibility for underserved markets. Though primarily operating behind the scenes, his work directly supports millions of users across the continent, reflecting a commitment to measurable social and economic impact.
15 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
sentry10
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skeleton-code10
automation10
spacemacs10
linter10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
davidshepherd7/ankicli
May 2017 - Jan 2019
Proof-of-concept command line interface for managing Anki decks.
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
ankicommand-line-interface
davidshepherd7/melpa
Jan 2015 - Nov 2018
Scripts for building Emacs packages from Version Control
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
elispversion-controlspacemacsshieldsemacs
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