Nicholas Brown
Staff Engineer at Prefect
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Brown is a Staff Engineer with nine years of experience building and scaling data-centric systems at Prefect, where he progressed from Senior Software Engineer to Principal and now Staff Engineer. Based in Washington, D.C., he focuses on production-grade orchestration and workflow tooling, contributing to Prefect’s open-source ecosystem (as indicated by his GitHub/Prefect affiliation). His background spans startups and mission-driven teams, including roles at Uliza and Fraym, bringing practical experience in applied data workflows and distributed systems. Nicholas pairs technical depth with cross-functional collaboration, mentoring engineers while driving architecture and reliability improvements. Holding a BS and an MPH, he brings an uncommon blend of software engineering and public health insight that informs data-focused product decisions. Colleagues would describe him as a steady technical leader who turns complex orchestration challenges into maintainable, observable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Public Health (MPH), Master of Public Health (MPH) at University of South FloridaBachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Florida Southern College
English
Github Skills (88)
python10
codeblocks10
automation10
infrastructure10
svg10
vuejs210
orchestration10
data-pipeline10
graph-layout10
prefect10
data-engineering10
pipeline10
observability10
data-pipelines10
data-science10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
znicholasbrown/chorebot
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
A Slack bot to randomly assign chores to people in the workspace
Contributions:61 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
slack-bot
PrefectHQ/eslint-config
Mar 2023 - Sep 2025
Contributions:6 reviews, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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