Nicholas Finley-Day

Superbright

Technical Lead · Jul 2021 – Jun 2026

Technical lead on a multi-product property-tech platform, building greenfield codebases through private investment rounds totalling several million pounds.

Outcome: Platform used by major New York property developers

• Built core platform components across a Prisma/Postgres API, a client-authoring CMS and an embeddable search app, and formalised the API into a validated OpenAPI contract with generated TypeScript clients.
• Introduced CI checks, Playwright E2E coverage, code review practices and clearer ticket standards across a distributed team.
• Owned product and delivery decisions: defining requirements, prioritising the roadmap, setting delivery timelines and working with founders to balance customer, commercial and technical needs.

• React
• Next.js
• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Express
• Three.js
• Prisma
• Drizzle
• AWS

Times Higher Education

Senior Software Engineer · Oct 2020 – Mar 2021

Headless Next.js platform on Drupal for a high-traffic global education publisher.

Outcome: Registrations exceeded multi-year targets within weeks of launch

• Contributed to the headless Next.js frontend against Drupal APIs, shaping frontend architecture, API integration and component patterns.
• Integrated Elasticsearch to power search and content discovery across 150+ institutions.

• Next.js
• React
• TypeScript
• Drupal
• Elasticsearch
• GraphQL

Eurostar

Senior Software Engineer · Mar 2019 – Apr 2020

Replaced the legacy Drupal CMS with Sanity for a multilingual travel platform serving 40M+ annual visits.

Outcome: ~10% engagement uplift on the redesigned homepage

• Mapped legacy Drupal content structures and migration paths ahead of cutover.
• Built Next.js components and content models that became the foundation of the modern frontend.

• Next.js
• React
• TypeScript
• Sanity
• Drupal

Westminster City Council

Senior Software Engineer · Jun 2016 – Apr 2018

Full-stack development for westminster.gov.uk, a Drupal platform serving 4M+ visits a year.

• Helped select and deliver a replacement search platform across the tri-borough partnership — contributing to procurement, designing and implementing a custom Drupal module, and coordinating rollout across Westminster, Lambeth and RBKC.
• Built a Drupal campaign template system so non-technical staff could run major public campaigns independently.

• Drupal
• PHP
• Funnelback
• Solr