Carol Nichols
Developer Owner Founder at Integer 32, LLC
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolCarol Nichols is a founder and hands-on developer with 15 years’ experience building user-focused software, from Rails single-page frontends to robust Rust backends. She runs Integer 32, helping companies evaluate and adopt Rust through prototypes, training, and pair programming, while emphasizing clean, testable code and iterative UX informed by user testing. Her open-source footprint includes contributions to flagship Rust projects like cargo, rustup, mdBook, and the Rust website, plus data systems work in Apache Arrow and InfluxDB, showing deep systems and tooling expertise beyond typical web stacks. Formerly a software architect scaling a major tutoring platform, she combines product-minded engineering with a knack for replacing brittle third-party pieces with reliable in-house solutions. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic design, strong tests, and community-building across languages and ecosystems.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS + MS, Computer Science, BS + MS, Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
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Github Skills (92)
dependency-management10
cargo10
testing10
command-line-interface10
url-parsing10
ruby10
apache-arrow10
dependency-track10
dependency-resolver10
file-processing10
parquet10
doorkeeper10
schema10
ruby-on-rails10
dependency-resolution10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
hotsh/rstat.us
Mar 2011 - Jan 2015
Simple microblogging network based on the ostatus protocol.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:573 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Carol primarily contributed to implementing features for a microblogging network based on the ostatus protocol. Their work involved adding browse user functionality and incorporating pagination to improve the user experience. Additionally, they integrated a time ago plugin and performed updates to the front end. The user also worked on setting up the correct environment variables for production deployments.
dokkumicrobloggingprogressive-web-appsostatus
rust-lang/book
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
The Rust Programming Language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:2 releases, 150 reviews, 3175 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Carol contributed by merging pull requests related to refactoring and linking within the Rust book. They added and modified scripts to automate and streamline the build process, specifically integrating tools for removing links, converting quotes, and generating release artifacts. The user’s work involved the creation of tools to prepare the book's content for the Nostarch format.
rustlanguage-designcompilermdbookprogramming-language
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