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James Nicholls

At work, I manage large real-time platforms.
This is my personal portfolio / blog site.

  Projects

Certificate City

(2024) Distributed TLS certificate collector and validator. Work in progress.

SIP Chef

(2024) SIP packet collection and analysis tool similar to HOMER. Work in progress.

Puzzle Cards

(2020) Web app for creating, editing and sharing puzzles, built with Svelte and Redis.

NetVis

(2013) Visualization tool enabling multiple perspectives of network traffic data using pcap.

Pipeline Simulator

(2014) Mobile graphics pipeline simulator. An educational tool for Android devices.

  Articles

Revert Unknown Git Commits

Rewriting the past to subtract from the present.

Self-Hosted Passwords

How to run Bitwarden at home for more than 3 months.

How to Launder Bitcoin

You can't win if you don't play the game. A rant and a how-to guide.

Marketing Machine Gun

LAST CHANCE - 1/3 Off All Blog Posts - Ends Tomorrow!

  Experience

Dstny

Currently Head of Infrastructure & Operations at Dstny, connecting millions of users with modern, mobile-first telecoms solutions.

Netcraft

Full-stack engineering role building fraud detection services, deep learning for email classification, and web application penetration testing.

  Contact

Get in touch via [email protected]. You can also find me on LinkedIn.