Chris Nienhuis
Software Architect at Udemy
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Nienhuis is a software architect with 12 years of experience building high-quality web and mobile user experiences, currently shaping platform direction at Udemy after leadership roles as Principal Engineer at Udemy and Vrbo. He brings deep front-end expertise and full-stack breadth, pairing big-picture architecture with hands-on implementation and a track record of shipping complex UI systems at scale. Known for strong technical leadership and a collaborative, positive team culture, he repeatedly moves teams from prototype to production across consumer-facing marketplaces and education platforms. Based in Austin and grounded in a Computer Science degree from UT Austin, he thrives on adopting new technologies while retaining solid engineering fundamentals—often surfacing pragmatic, incremental improvements that reduce long-term maintenance costs.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Dutch
Github Skills (101)
hapi10
application10
shim10
nodejs10
trust10
javascript9
browser9
http9
core-js9
react9
js8
haystack8
google-analytics8
nextjs8
zipkin8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ExpediaGroup/nimbuild
Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
A suite of build tools that enable ultra fast web bundling at run-time.
Contributions:26 commits, 13 PRs, 48 pushes in 3 months
core-jsruntimeultrawebpackbuild-tools
ExpediaGroup/fpsmeter
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
Optimized javascript utility for measuring frames per second in a browser environment. Useful for observing end-user client run-time performance without adversly impacting performance.
Contributions:2 releases, 6 commits, 15 PRs in 4 months
javascript-utilityend-userbrowserjavascriptmeasuring
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