Nick Tonkin
Software Engineering Manager at Newfold Digital
Farmville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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SeniorNick Tonkin is a seasoned software engineering leader with more than two decades of experience delivering data-driven, high-quality applications primarily in Perl. As Software Engineering Manager at Newfold Digital, he leads cross-functional teams across Perl, Python, React, Terraform and cloud platforms, balancing delivery with people development and stakeholder alignment. A longtime CPAN contributor and open-source advocate, he brings deep design, testing and performance sensibilities to scale software across brands and services. His career spans senior individual contributor and leadership roles at Newfold Digital, Broadbean Technology, Nick Tonkin Software Consulting and early roles in education tech, reflecting a track record of building and mentoring teams to ship reliable APIs, data pipelines and reporting tools. Based in Farmville, Virginia, he merges hands-on engineering with strategic planning, agile processes and vendor/internal integrations (AWS, Workday, REST APIs). He thrives on turning complex requirements into maintainable systems and coaching engineers to grow while delivering on planning commitments.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
51reputation
307reached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (101)
perl10
dancer10
perl510
rewrite10
macros9
cpan9
jquery8
pager8
dbi8
jquery-plugin8
yadcf8
solidworks8
filter8
tablesorter8
hugo7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
1nickt/Dancer2
Sep 2015 - Aug 2019
Perl Dancer Next Generation (rewrite of Perl Dancer)
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
dancernext-generationrewriteperl
1nickt/Perl-Advent
Jun 2015 - Dec 2018
the Perl Advent calendar
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
calendaradvent-calendarperlextjsmojolicious
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