Nicholas Bottone
Software Engineer at Affirm
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Bottone is a software engineer based in New York City with a decade of hands-on experience and a recent B.S. in Computer Science from Brown University, where he served as head teaching assistant and led the computer science student association. Now at Affirm, he brings practical expertise from internships at Jane Street and Paramount, where he cut CI validation time by 90% and optimized live-stream ad delivery. Nicholas has a strong systems and web background—modernizing coursework to Next.js and serverless platforms and maintaining Linux lab infrastructure serving 1,000+ students. He combines an educator’s perspective with product-focused engineering, favoring pragmatic automation and measurable performance gains.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Brown UniversityHigh School Diploma, Computer Science, High School Diploma, Computer Science at Ponaganset High School
English
Github Skills (54)
robotics9
simulation9
django9
anonymous9
discord-py8
forum8
raid8
discord7
discord-bot7
rank7
socket6
python6
discord-js6
react5
mongodb5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SecondRobotics/SimTourneyBot
May 2023 - Aug 2024
A Discord bot for running simulation robotics tournaments in xRC Sim, written in Discord.js.
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Gongoliers/Robot2020
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:78 commits, 63 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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