Nick Jenkins
Nick has worked in software engineering for 32 years since graduating from Curtin University in 1992 with a Bachelor of Computer Science. Additionally, Nick holds a Graduate Certificate of Urban Planning and Design from Curtin. His first job was also at Curtin where he helped academics in nursing and biomedical sciences create interactive teaching resources. He helped co-author “The Developer’s Handbook to Interactive Multimedia” with Rob Phillips, which was published by Kogan Page in 1997.
From there, he went on to Sydney to help found the “Australian Multimedia Testing Centre” which was funded as part of Paul Keating’s “Creative Nation” initiative. He took his career to software leadership roles in London, Prague and Boston before he returned to Perth in 2007. In 2016, he helped found Mechanical Rock, a software engineering consultancy that focuses on high-end software engineering and cloud solutions for corporate clients in Perth, applying his keen interest in Lean and the Toyota Way and its modern software equivalent, DevOps.
Nick joined the CIDS in 2024 through its partnership with the ARDC as a Program Manager (Research Software Specialist). He leads the CIDS team that supports the ARDC’s Research Software Agenda in Australia.
His key competencies and research interests include:
•Software Quality Engineering
•Domain-driven Data Models at Scale
•Sustainability and Urban Planning