Nicholas Busby
Senior Software Engineer at HackerOne
Renton, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Busby is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and modernizing high‑scale systems across startups and large organizations. He excels at transitioning legacy monoliths to distributed, observable microservices and has driven migrations spanning databases (MongoDB to PostgreSQL/Dynamo) and deployment platforms (Heroku to Azure, CDK/CloudFormation for AWS Lambda). Comfortable as both an individual contributor and team leader, he’s increased platform stability to 99.99%, mentored engineers, and improved testing and release pipelines. A polyglot who pairs pragmatic engineering with strong documentation and playbooks, he also brings hands‑on experience in event‑driven architectures, Node/Rust/Python services, and mobile app delivery. Based in Renton, WA with a CS degree from University of Montana, he’s known for turning messy legacy constraints into reliable, well‑documented systems that teams can confidently operate and evolve.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Montana
English
Github Skills (26)
ruby-wrapper10
python8
raspberry-pi7
iot6
mqtt6
home-automation5
asyncio4
visual-studio4
react3
javascript3
socket-io3
visual-studio-code3
rails3
pair-programming3
internet-of-things3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NicholasBusby/WreckfestServer
Feb 2024 - Feb 2026
If you want it changed, do it your self
Contributions:5 reviews, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 1 month
NicholasBusby/RCBeacon
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:8 PRs, 23 pushes, 10 branches in 1 month
beacon
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