Andrew Nicholson
Software Engineer
Summary
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SeniorAndrew Nicholson is a founding staff software engineer with a decade of experience building resilient, scalable systems and shaping technical direction at early-stage startups. Based in Santa Barbara, he has repeatedly taken small teams through architectural shifts—most notably moving a company stack from Rails to Node.js, implementing Transactional Outbox patterns, and designing durable workflow orchestration to improve reliability. He combines hands-on implementation of core services (email delivery, integrations, reusable design systems) with mentoring and org-level initiatives like SDLC and reference architectures rooted in DDD, event-driven design, and CQRS. Known for reducing uncertainty early to save engineering cycles, he excels at turning ambiguous product needs into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
libxml28
xml8
xslt8
nokogiri7
libxslt7
sax7
ruby5
rails-api5
html4
css3
jwt-authentication3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
anicholson44/resume
Oct 2019 - Sep 2025
Contributions:56 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 11 months
anicholson44/camsizes.com
Mar 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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