Nelson Ochoa
Staff Software Engineer at Drata
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolNelson Ochoa is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling full‑stack systems across security, IoT, HR, and hospitality domains. He blends hands‑on engineering with architectural leadership—driving service‑based transformations, high‑throughput event pipelines, and enterprise integrations that power millions of users and multimillion‑dollar ARR. Comfortable across JS/TS, Node, React, Kafka, Kubernetes and AWS, he pairs pragmatic design (DDD, TDD) with observability and automated testing practices to improve reliability and delivery velocity. A founder who shipped a live kitchen operations product and an AWS Greengrass contributor, he brings both startup grit and large‑scale cloud experience. Known for introducing integration testing and async design standards, he elevates team practices while remaining deeply involved in coding and system design. Based in Calgary, he’s passionate about turning complex workflows into maintainable, production‑grade software.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Computer Science at Universidad Metropolitana (VE)
Spanish, French, English
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Github Skills (20)
aws-greengrass10
amazon-cloudwatch10
iot-device9
qa-automation9
command-line-interface9
java9
aws9
indexof9
refactoring9
interprocess-communication9
annotatorjs8
test-framework8
gdk8
edge-computing8
programming-language7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Nelsonochoam/nelsonochoam.github.io
Jul 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
Nelsonochoam/java_threading
Jan 2015 - Jul 2019
Contributions:4 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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