James Nicholson
Senior Software Engineer at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Nicholson is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems for academia and enterprise. At Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health he led cross-functional redesigns, built an authz/authn layer that displaced a costly vendor, and automated generation of thousands of researcher profiles to replace manual CMS workflows. He pairs a Harvard Master's in Software Engineering with hands-on expertise in distributed systems, background job processing, and tooling/standards that improve team velocity and observability. Comfortable both in technical lead roles and in delivery-focused execution, he has a track record of replacing brittle processes with programmatic, maintainable solutions that scale across departments.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BS, Journalism and Mass Communication, BS, Journalism and Mass Communication at University of Colorado at BoulderMaster's, Software Engineering, Master's, Software Engineering at Harvard Extension SchoolLos Altos High School
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
991reputation
305kreached
9answers
17questions
Github Skills (64)
composer10
dependency-manager9
wordpress-plugin9
topic-models9
php9
topic-modeling9
package-manager9
nlp8
queue8
python8
task-manager8
custom-taxonomies8
wordpress8
taxonomies8
sentence-embeddings8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nicholsonjf/e15
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:90 commits, 81 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
HarvardChanSchool/.github
Jul 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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