Claudio Wilson
Co-Founder & CTO at Nickel
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolClaudio Wilson is a Co-Founder and CTO with 12 years of experience building payment and transaction-risk systems, currently leading Nickel to deliver industrial-strength payments from New York. Previously at Airbnb he drove fraud and chargeback engineering—automating dispute workflows, implementing similarity search to cut fraud 12%, and designing contextual multi-armed bandits to optimize user friction. He combines hands-on systems engineering (authoring core job-queue infrastructure and Kafka financial events) with product-minded leadership in high-stakes financial workflows. Known for shipping pragmatic, scalable services used by millions, he blends startup grit with enterprise-grade reliability and an eye for measurable risk reduction.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinIB Diploma, IB Diploma at International School Manila
Github Skills (90)
javascript10
api10
database10
sqlite10
typescript10
sql-server10
nodejs10
mongodb10
query-builder10
sql-query9
sql9
orm-library9
postgresql9
databases9
redis9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yerbieinc/yerbie
Jan 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 release, 75 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
claudiowilson/dotfiles
Jul 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:27 pushes in 5 years 10 months
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