Nicholas Bergson-shilcock
Cofounder & CEO at Recurse Center
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Bergson-shilcock is a seasoned software founder and CEO with 16 years of experience building developer-focused communities and reliable backend systems from New York. As cofounder and CEO of the Recurse Center, he blends product leadership with a deep commitment to self-directed learning and developer growth, having evolved the organization from an earlier startup he helped launch. His hands-on engineering background includes improving reliability in transit planning software—contributing bug fixes and test-suite enhancements to the widely used OpenTripPlanner project—underscoring a focus on correctness in complex backend logic. Trained in computer engineering and intelligent systems, he moves fluidly between technical problem solving, project management, and cultivating environments where curious programmers level up.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Summer 2010, Summer 2010 at Y CombinatorBA Intelligent systems, BA Intelligent systems at Franklin & Marshall CollegeBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Columbia University
Github Skills (10)
opentripplanner10
javas10
java10
testing10
junit9
gtfs8
data-structure7
data-structures7
algorithm7
algorithms7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
opentripplanner/OpenTripPlanner
Sep 2009 - May 2010
An open source multi-modal trip planner
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:169 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily addressed issues within the codebase by fixing bugs, and improving the test suite. Specifically, they resolved issues with the GTFS data loading and trip planning algorithms. The user also refactored and renamed test files. These contributions suggest a focus on improving the reliability and correctness of the backend logic.
multimodal
nicholasbs/nick.is
Mar 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 1 comment in 4 years 9 months
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