About
Our Name
The Nickel Capital of the world, Sudbury, Ontario is often referred to as the "Nickel City". The city is located in the Sudbury Basin, the third-largest known impact crater on Earth.
Our Location
We are active members of the Sudbury, Ottawa and Toronto Drupal communities and are proud to contribute to the City of Greater Sudbury through participation in local events and by supporting local businesses.
Our Mascot
Nickel City Creative is the proud owner Ryuzaki, the standard grey chinchilla. His inquisitive nature makes him the perfect pet for a creative development agency!
Nickel City Creative
Nickel City Creative is a Sudbury, Ontario based company that provides reliable, high-quality solutions to technical problems encountered by businesses, nonprofits and individuals located in Northern Ontario and internationally.
- We specialize in providing integrated solutions from infrastructure and hardware to client-facing applications
- We offer maintenance packages and support for all of our services and for existing solutions.
- We meet with clients at their places of business, in their homes, in public spaces or remotely online, whichever is most convenient
If you are looking for solutions to your technology problems or simply want to maintain or expand your existing infrastructure, Nickel City Creative can help. We offer professional hardware and software services that are customized to meet your needs and budget.
Drupal & Backdrop CMS
- Custom module development
- Integration with third-party services and platforms
- Extending and improving core and contrib projects
- Site building and maintainance
- Drupal 7 Extended Support
- Self-service options for CKEditor 5 and media management available for purchase via the Nickel City Creative store.
Home Theatre
- Design and recommendations
- Audio/video calibration
- Custom wiring
- Networking and media servers
Networking
- Wired and wireless
- Custom wiring
- Rack mounts, server setup and maintainence
- Cloud integration
Computer Services
- Computer repair
- Software training
- Custom computer systems
- Remote administration and maintenance
A full stack development shop, we are uniquely positioned to handle both the hardware and software requirements of your home or business. Additionally, we bring many advantages.
Experience
We have over seventeen years of experience providing computer, home theatre, networking and web development services.
Custom Solutions
Need more than an off-the-shelf solution? We can develop custom software/hardware to fit your exact requirements.
Competitive Rates
We offer competitive hours rates for quality service.
Flexible Hours
From early morning to late evening, we will arrange our schedule to fit yours.
Extensive experience in the areas of web development, audio/video, networking and general computer services.
- Director of Carlson & Keranen Inc.
- Drupal Distributions Engineer, Senior Developer in the Office of the Chief Technical Officer and Demo Engineer for Acquia
- Senior Web/Drupal Developer for the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines
Leaders in cutting-edge technology and community.
- Panelist at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
- Community sprint lead at Drupalcon Austin.
- Presenter at Drupalcamp Toronto.
- Code sprinter at Drupalon Portland, Drupalcon Los Angeles, Drupalcon Amsterdam, Drupalcamp Iowa, San Francisco Bay Area Drupalcamp, Drupalcamp Ottawa and Midwest Drupal Camp Chicago.
A history of successful projects.
- Maintained 30+ projects on Drupal.org in use by over 200,000 websites.
- Contributed to popular public software projects including Composer Patches and oEmbed.
- Built 100+ custom computer systems for use as servers, photo/video manipulation, gaming and more.
- Planned, installed and calibrated 20+ home theatre systems, from integrated 2-channel setups to 10-channel separates in theatre environments.
- Planned, installed and tested 50+ wired and wireless networks ranging from small home setups to rack-mounted, multi-switch gigabit networks running over CAT-6.
Devin Carlson
Director & Primary Developer
Devin Carlson has been involved with technology for as long as he can remember. Growing up in the City of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, he got his start in the world of technology by building and selling custom computer systems in elementary school to fund his desire to play with the latest gadgets and hardware. His love of music made moving into the field of home theatre design and calibration a natural second step. He then tied his interests together via programming and web development with a focus on Drupal and Backdrop CMS, which he has worked with as a senior developer for the Ontario Public Service and Acquia.