Josh Nicholson
Senior Software Engineer, Data
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Nicholson is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience designing and operating scalable data pipelines and integrations for Salesforce at American Express. He specializes in Spark/Databricks, Airflow, and AWS services, and has a strong background building real-time ETL streams from Kafka and Kinesis into Salesforce using Apex and REST APIs. Josh combines platform-level data engineering with hands-on full-stack experience—having built internal Angular/Django apps and automated deployments with Terraform and Bamboo. Earlier roles administering Kerberized Hadoop clusters gave him deep operational knowledge of big-data ecosystems and monitoring automation. Based in Atlanta, he has a track record of translating customer-facing needs into robust, automated systems that improve sales and service workflows. A practical problem-solver, he’s notable for bridging Salesforce declarative/custom development with production-grade data engineering.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of North Georgia
English
Github Skills (54)
vscode-debugger10
vscode-extension10
salesforcedx10
apex10
salesforce10
pathofexile9
bayeux9
lightning9
hammer9
discord-bot9
cometd9
vscode9
poe8
chatbot8
firebase8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
matta174/BoardGameBot
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
This is the repository for a board game based Discord bot
Contributions:101 commits, 44 PRs, 82 pushes in 1 month
discord-botboard-gameboardgamegeekchatbotpython-3
joshua-nicholson/BeerMe
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:5 PRs, 35 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
social-networkandroidkotlinsharefavorite
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