Ben Nichols
Senior Backend Engineer at ReadWorks
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Nichols is a Senior Backend Engineer based in the Greater Seattle Area with four years of focused professional experience and a longer track record building large-scale infrastructure at AWS and Oracle. He specializes in system design, process automation, and operational hardening, having led CI/CD rollouts, log management backups, and IPv6 and DNS control plane projects for high‑scale fleets. At Oracle and AWS he built ETL, monitoring, and tooling that transformed manual operational workflows into automated, auditable pipelines. Currently consulting while serving as a senior backend engineer at ReadWorks, he blends hands‑on engineering with project management and mentoring responsibilities. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he often pairs security-first thinking with practical automation to reduce toil and improve reliability. His background ranges from solo freelance sysadmin work to leading cross-functional teams, giving him a rare mix of startup agility and enterprise-grade delivery experience.
4 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Phillips Academy AndoverBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at Boston University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
222reputation
53kreached
3answers
5questions
Github Skills (44)
history9
shell8
cli8
addon8
bash8
golang7
firefox-addon7
writers7
zsh7
facebook-ios-sdk6
uikit6
tab-management6
android6
uicollectionview6
iphone6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bnichs/bnichs.github.io
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:17 PRs, 160 pushes, 10 branches in 1 month
bnichs/shellcord
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:137 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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