Nicholas Arnold
Principal Engineer at City Labs
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Arnold is a Principal Engineer based in Denver with 13 years of hands-on experience building resilient, cloud-native backend systems that prioritize observability and long-term maintainability. He has led backend architecture and core conversions for financial services platforms, drove award-winning fintech products at PENSCO, and now shapes AI-enabled compliance tooling at Archive Intel while running his own consulting firm, City Labs. Nicholas excels at translating complex business requirements into scalable, production-ready solutions and is pragmatic about minimizing technical debt. He blends deep lifecycle expertise—from architecture and testing to deployment and optimization—with a penchant for measurable results and engineering culture. Curious and solutions-focused, he pairs principal-level strategy with ongoing hands-on development. A less obvious strength is his history of bridging academic research-style data work (GIS and real-time modeling) with enterprise-scale product engineering.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Iowa
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Github contributions (5)
nickarnold/homebrew
Oct 2015 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 9 years 2 months
package-managerlinuxmissingos-xmacos
nickarnold/counterscale
Jul 2024 - Jan 2025
Scalable web analytics you run yourself on Cloudflare
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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