Nic Ficca
Senior Software Engineer at FOSSA
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNic Ficca is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput backend systems for consumer and enterprise web products. A University of Waterloo computer science graduate, he has shipped distributed microservices and APIs that powered millions of MAUs and handled over a billion daily requests across roles at Prodigy, theScore, and Lightspeed. He excels in backend architecture, Ruby/Rails, GraphQL, and designing scalable services for payments and point-of-sale domains. Currently at FOSSA, he brings recent staff-level experience in evolving large monoliths into service-oriented platforms. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic engineering trade-offs and for translating complex business requirements into robust, maintainable systems. Outside core backend work he draws on full-stack and client-side experience from earlier roles to bridge frontend-backend gaps during integrations.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (48)
discord10
dependency-analysis10
language-agnostic10
discord-bot10
scanning10
discord-js9
vulnerability9
static-analysis9
portable9
security9
interpreter9
source-code-analysis9
nodejs9
sca9
jit9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aarongough/tout
Sep 2017 - Apr 2021
Allow the easy and safe testing of private methods.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 comment in 3 years 7 months
testingprivate-methodssafe-testingsafe
nficca/vtop
Oct 2017 - Dec 2024
Wow such top. So stats. More better than regular top.
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 3 months
statsregular
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