Nicholas Behrens
Senior Software Engineer at Backblaze
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Behrens is a Senior Software Engineer based in Denver with 11 years of experience building scalable, resilient backend systems and APIs. He has driven production initiatives at Backblaze and Snapdocs, including designing reusable OAuth2 frameworks, SCIM APIs, and global-scale features for Backblaze B2 that handle billions of API calls per day. Nicholas excels at pragmatic architecture—introducing library swaps, reusable Golang/Ruby libraries, and distributed caching strategies that improved response times and resilience. He pairs hands-on coding with cross-team leadership, having led technical roadmaps, mitigated large security backlogs, and standardized company-wide solutions. Comfortable across cloud, DevOps, and security concerns, he has a track record of turning complex requirements into maintainable, reusable systems. Notably, he often seeks consensus-driven change, balancing technical rigor with operational sustainability.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Iowa State University
English
Github Skills (104)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nab0310/SpotifyML
Apr 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 7 months
nab0310/nab0310.github.io
Sep 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 49 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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