Johnicholas Hines
Software Engineer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohnicholas Hines is a polyglot software engineer with 15 years of experience building resilient, production-grade systems across embedded, cloud, frontend, and backend domains. He has a track record of preventing outages and abuse at scale—designing anti-abuse DFAs at Glitch, eliminating DDoS risk and automating Kafka migrations at Datadog, and maintaining five-nines C++ gRPC services at Google Maps. Comfortable across paradigms, he blends domain-specific languages and planners for robotics with pragmatic cloud-native solutions, and he champions observability and measured rollouts to reduce incidents and cost. Based in New York, he pairs deep technical craft with cross-functional collaboration and a taste for unconventional practices—like running Mob Programming RPGs—to drive reliable, maintainable software.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Haverford CollegeUniversity of Southern Maine
Github Skills (36)
npm9
glitch-com8
mathematical8
mathematics8
visualization8
javascript8
nodejs8
dependency-manager8
euler7
programming-language7
notation7
dialogue-systems7
unity3d6
react5
svg5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Johnicholas/johnicholas.github.io
Jan 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:316 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
Johnicholas/Hello-Github
Jun 2011 - Jan 2023
Contributions:192 commits, 6 pushes in 11 years 8 months
react
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