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Hey there, I'm Nicholas 👋

I'm Nicholas Bates, a final year engineering student. I specialise in Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Auckland.

I am pursuing a career in tech because I am perpetually captivated by the wonder of computing and the challenges that can be solved through effective use of the appropriate tools. I started my programming journey in middle-school, where I started to learn web development and from then I moved to mobile application development, database programming and finally open source game development. I thoroughly enjoy the programming process which is why I have stayed the path for all these years! I look forward to seeing where this path takes me into the future.

Presently, I am an active contributor to the Moving Blocks organisation where I am a primary contributor to the space arcade game Destination Sol. I am currently mentoring a student through the ambitious Google Summer of Code program, in which he is spending three months converting much of the Destination Sol code-base to an Entity Component system, for greatly improved moding support and integration with existing Moving Blocks tooling. Alongside this, I frequently contribute code, documentation, review and other miscellaneous tasks as requested both on the Destination Sol game and elsewhere in the organisation.

Here are a couple of my programming highlights:

• 400 hour Software Engineering internship at Trimble Navigation New Zealand Ltd.
• 400 hour Software Engineering internship at LogTag International Ltd.
• Coaching both young students from Google Code-In and older students in Google Summer of Code
• Google Code-In finalist 2017
• Proactive contributor to open source projects Terasology and Destination Sol since 2016

See my resume:

My CV is available here.