Summary
Nicholas Clark is a software engineer and Carnegie Mellon Computer Science student with 11 years of practical experience delivering production-ready systems across Cloud, fintech, and research environments. He’s interned at Google and Amazon and now contributes at Jane Street, repeatedly shipping scalable APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and refactors with minimal supervision. His strengths span C/C++, Java, Python, REST microservices, and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), backed by formal certifications and hands-on work benchmarking distributed systems at scale. Nicholas pairs classroom rigor and teaching experience—serving as a TA for systems courses—with competitive programming and leadership in NSBE, which sharpens both his technical depth and collaboration skills. Notably, he automated cross-cloud performance benchmarking and helped design an automated VLAN provisioning system using Terraform, demonstrating an aptitude for infrastructure automation and reproducible research workflows. Based in San Diego, he brings a blend of research, teaching, and industry experience that accelerates delivery of robust, measurable software outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University