A software engineer at Twitter. He started on the web team, writing JavaScript to help to build the main twitter.com website. He now writes Scala for the backend Tweets service, working on projects such as the change from 140 to 280 character Tweets and the Limit Replies feature. Nick grew up in the UK, and has a degree in Music and Sound Recording from the University of Surrey. He now lives in Colorado with his wife, two daughters, three cats, and one dog.