Braden Arestides
Lead Software Engineer at Nubank
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBraden Arestides is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience who specializes in building production systems in Clojure and guiding teams through large-scale rewrites and microservice migrations. Based in Cincinnati, he has moved from hands-on engineering to technical leadership at Nubank after architecting a .NET-to-Clojure transformation and shipping a custom billing and telephony stack at PhoneWagon. His background spans backend services, DevOps on AWS, ClojureScript front-ends, and integrations with third-party platforms like Stripe and Google Analytics. He also brings entrepreneurial and ops experience from founding a gaming server community where he developed plugins and managed infrastructure, reflecting a practical blend of product focus and systems-level design. Notably, he has DoD clearance experience from AFRL internships and a consistent record of reducing operational toil through automation.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University of Cincinnati
English
Github Skills (22)
spigot5
minecraft5
survival4
window-manager4
bukkit4
server-side4
shell3
tiling3
zsh3
dedicated-server3
unix3
bash3
linux3
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statistics1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
project-ihy/ihy
May 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 1 branch in 1 year
barestides/arcane-site
Apr 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:14 PRs, 20 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 9 months
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