Nicholas Christopher
Senior Software Engineer at Paxos
Morris Plains, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Christopher is a senior software engineer with 12 years of recent experience and decades of hands-on coding dating back to the 1980s, now focused on building Go microservices at Paxos. He has led and contributed directly to mission-critical, high-SLA systems across finance, education, and device management—shipping trading platforms, massive transaction engines, customer APIs, and a zero-touch OTA firmware update system that saved thousands of support hours. Comfortable managing cross-discipline, distributed teams, he blends architecture and day-to-day development to ensure reliable production delivery. Known as a “graybeard” coder, he pairs deep legacy knowledge with modern cloud-native practices and a practical, results-driven leadership style.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Avon Old FarmsBA, Comp Sci, East Asian Studies, BA, Comp Sci, East Asian Studies at Columbia University
English
Github Skills (91)
svg10
golang10
exceptions10
dsl10
generics10
kotlin10
asdf10
lambdas10
kotlin-android9
ansible9
kotlin-multiplatform9
background-service9
database9
kotlin-language9
python9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nwillc/buildInfo
Dec 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
nwillc/ksvg
Jul 2018 - Jan 2022
A Multiplatform Kotlin SVG image DSL.
Contributions:1 review, 198 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 6 months
svgsvg-imagedslkotlin-multiplatformandroid
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