Brett Nitschke
Senior Software Engineer at Turo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Nitschke is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building backend systems across startups and large-scale companies, currently shipping features at Turo. He has held engineering roles at Attentive and Amazon and brings hands-on expertise in backend development and production delivery. A Computer Science graduate, Brett balances deep technical work with a practical, product-focused mindset—evident from roles that span from early-stage teams to high-throughput environments. Outside engineering he’s a longtime fitness coach, a background that surfaces in his disciplined approach to code quality (his GitHub persona, "Commit squasher," hints at a preference for tidy, iterative commits).
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at San Francisco State University
Github Skills (24)
end-to-end-encryption10
messaging10
identity10
key-management10
enforcement10
authentication10
security10
authorization10
trust10
credentials10
zero-trust10
encryption10
snowflake9
mutual-authentication9
kafka9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SFSU-CSC-667/term-project-spring-2017-jakulebe
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:14 PRs, 24 pushes, 17 branches in 25 days
github-classroomspringbootstrapterm-projectterm
BrettNitschke/api
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
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