Andrew Nicholson
Founding Staff Software Engineer at Endless Commerce
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew 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
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science and Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science and Philosophy at University of Virginia
English
Github Skills (16)
xslt9
sax8
libxml28
xml8
nokogiri8
html-parser7
libxslt6
ruby6
html4
rails-api4
api3
css3
jwt-authentication3
authentication3
jwt2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
anicholson44/resume
Oct 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:55 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 5 months
anicholson44/camsizes.com
Mar 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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