Nicholas Drone
Senior Java Developer at Winsupply
Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Drone is a Senior Java Developer with 11 years of professional experience building scalable, maintainable backend systems across retail and enterprise domains. He has led architecture and code review sessions, shepherded teams to Azure with Terraform and DevOps practices, and helped evolve Kroger’s Customer Experience Platform from hands-on development to cross-team architectural leadership. Comfortable across the JVM stack and cloud infrastructure, Nicholas combines deep legacy-system experience (from J2EE and IBM App Server) with modern CI/CD and IaC workflows. Based in Ohio, he balances technical mentorship with pragmatic delivery, turning backlog-heavy systems into proactively monitored, resilient services. Outside of work he’s a husband and father, which informs his collaborative, steady approach to team leadership.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Associates of Applied Science, Software Programming, Associates of Applied Science, Software Programming at ITT Techincal
Stackoverflow
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spring-mvc
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spring-security
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spring
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java
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thymeleaf
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junit
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Github Skills (112)
spring-projects10
dashboard10
python10
dhcp10
oh-my-zsh10
shell10
cli10
git10
dandelion10
rails10
java10
blackhole10
spring-boot10
macos10
zsh10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ndrone/ndrone
Sep 2021 - May 2026
My personal page
Contributions:2 reviews, 52 PRs, 88 pushes in 4 years 8 months
ndrone/ansible
Sep 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:94 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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