Nick Bolton
Founder-CTO CEO at Synergy App
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Bolton is a founder, CEO and interim CTO with 10 years of experience leading Symless, the company behind Synergy — a keyboard-and-mouse sharing app used by millions and trusted by customers such as Apple, Pixar and Disney. He began as an open-source C++ developer on Synergy in 2009 and still blends strategic leadership with hands-on engineering, contributing to backend improvements, logging and dependency refactors on projects like Deskflow. Based in London, he pairs product vision with operational grit — often coding late into the night — to drive Synergy 3 development across Windows, macOS and Linux. With a BEng in Software Engineering and prior entrepreneurship building bespoke desktop and web products, he brings startup pragmatism and production-grade engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Marketing, Digital Marketing at General AssemblyBEng Degree Software Engineering, BEng Degree Software Engineering at Prifysgol Aberystwyth UniversityBTEC ND Software Development, BTEC ND Software Development at University College Isle of Man
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
deskflow/deskflow
Jul 2017 - Oct 2022
Deskflow lets you share one mouse and keyboard between multiple computers on Windows, macOS and Linux. It's like a software KVM (but without video). Sponsored by Synergy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:252 releases, 889 reviews, 143 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nick focused on improving the application's logging by changing levels and updating error reporting, demonstrating an understanding of debugging and error handling. They also updated the GUI title and removed a CURL dependency, indicating involvement in GUI modifications and refactoring. Additionally, the user removed a dependency on CURL.
synergymouse-emulationmousesharingkeyboard-emulation
symless/synergy
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
Use the keyboard, mouse, or trackpad of one computer to control nearby computers, and work seamlessly between them.
Contributions:26 PRs, 99 pushes, 27 branches in 6 months
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