Nicholas Clark
Software Development Engineer at AWS Elemental, an Amazon Web Services Company
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Clark is a seasoned Software Development Engineer based in Portland with over 14 years building web and cloud-native systems, and more than five years focused in financial services. He blends hands-on backend expertise in Java, Python, PHP, and Go with strong systems and ops skills—Linux, MySQL/Postgres, Solr, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS—gained across roles from startups to Amazon. As a co-founder of Qmato he led product and engineering for a consumer-facing recommendation engine, giving him practical experience in search, performance optimization, and SEO-sensitive front-ends. At companies like Jive, Jama, and AWS Elemental he’s driven scalable service-oriented architectures and production-grade Java systems. Known for thorough documentation and operational discipline, he often bridges development and ops to reduce friction between delivery and reliability.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Michigan State University
Stackoverflow
4,449reputation
552kreached
96answers
5questions
solr
top-5%
php
top-5%
Github Skills (32)
solr9
css9
htaccess9
php9
httpd9
html9
javascript8
stylesheets7
html5-boilerplate7
frontend7
apache-http-server6
optimization6
indexing6
jquery6
debugging6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
clarkni5/php-snippets
May 2012 - Nov 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 1 push in 5 years 7 months
clarkni5/calchd
May 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:33 commits in 21 days
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