Emily Nielsen
Engineer I at American Express
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Nielsen is an Engineer I based in Miami who transitioned from a four-year HR career into software engineering after completing Flatiron School’s immersive program, and now brings eight years of professional experience to process automation and SRE-focused work. At American Express she builds Go and Python tooling to eliminate manual, rules-based tasks, and earlier projects include a React/Redux frontend for cancer research and a passion project that maps hospital quality and pricing. Skilled at organizing complex moving parts and partnering across teams, she combines strong product empathy with a knack for translating operational pain points into automated solutions. Her background in talent programs and mentorship design gives her an unusual strength in stakeholder coordination and scaling processes alongside code.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate diploma, English, Asian History, Theatre, International Baccalaureate diploma, English, Asian History, Theatre at Rampart High SchoolAustrian Economics, Austrian Economics at Mises UniversityBA, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), BA, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at The King's College
French, English
Github Skills (19)
shell8
nvm8
lts8
bash8
rails8
ruby8
nodejs8
mvc7
ruby-on-rails7
zsh7
html7
activerecord6
posix6
ssl4
cryptography4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cemilycollins/travel-planner-app
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
mod3 project
Contributions:34 PRs, 40 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
mod
cemilycollins/hippo_rails_api
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 54 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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