Summary
Cassandra Nicol is a seasoned software developer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining networked and web-based applications across Unix/Linux and Windows environments. She brings deep C/C++ and scripting expertise (Perl, shell, PHP) and has applied Java, ActionScript, and Symfony in production systems ranging from Flash-based chat backends to e-commerce and monitoring tools. Her background includes roles at Amazon, Microsoft Network/HCL, Travelocity and security-focused firms where she bridged third-tier support, testing, and backend architecture—often writing database-backed server extensions and porting code across Unix platforms. Now running freelance Linux web development projects through Nordiccodes.com, she combines legacy system fluency with modern web stacks and an appetite for debugging as much as designing new architectures. Based in Colorado Springs, she is pragmatic about maintainability and performance, and often surfaces non-obvious operational improvements from monitoring and metrics work accumulated over long-lived production systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Angleton High School