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Chris Nicola

Vancouver, British Columbia

Technology stack and product development advisor. Able to help people with their development stack, product development process, tooling advice and PaaS and IaaS options.

I'm the CTO and co-founder of WealthBar (http://wealthbar.com). We're trying to open up traditional wealth management to smaller clients offering a combination of personal financial advice and expertly managed portfolios online.

I'm an experienced full-stack web developer who's worked primarily with .NET and Ruby on Rails but dabbles with just about everything. I'm currently building products with AngularJS and Rails.

Let me know if I can help you and your startup. All proceeds go to charity.

$1.00/min

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Entrepreneurship Lean startup Ruby on Rails JavaScript Web development Software Architecture Product Development Full-Stack Software Development Personal Finance Investing

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Full-Stack Software Development

I've been an application and web developer for over 5 years and in IT and coding various things most of my life. I've led and managed project teams, designed and built products and done everything from systems-level architecture to interface development.

http://lucisferre.net

Development Process

I have a lot of experience putting together efficient development processes from larger to startups. Things like source control, testing, continuous integration and automated deployment can really accelerate the development process even for a two person startup.

http://lucisferre.net/2010/09/22/my-pragma-just-killed-your-dogma/

Software Architecture

Good software development is all about design. Well designed systems are robust, extensible and future-proof. Poorly designed systems are brittle and expensive to maintain and adapt.

http://lucisferre.net/2011/03/24/cqrs-rest/

HTML5, CSS3 and Modern Front-End Development

I've spent a lot of time in the past year getting up to speed on the future of HTML web development for both mobile and desktop. There is a lot of new power at hand along with lots of new pains.

http://lucisferre.net/2012/12/20/controlling-the-future-with-the-history-api/

Product Development

I take a very pragmatic approach to product development, neither full subscribing to agile, or lean software development methodologies. Both have valuable lessons to learn, but in the end each situation is unique and should be measured, learned and managed differently.

http://lucisferre.net/2011/11/01/no-one-wants-to-buy-your-iterations/

Member since December 2012