Summary
Nicholas Dugal is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building reliable, production-grade services for payments and data platforms, currently contributing to Google’s Payments Platform from Sunnyvale. He has a strong background in automation and API design—creating GraphQL/REST services, company-wide libraries, and automated tooling for CI/CD, testing, and release orchestration. Comfortable across Node/TypeScript, Python, and Java, he’s shipped Kubernetes-deployed services with observability via New Relic and Kibana and has led cross-team efforts to scale test and deployment frameworks. Early work includes machine learning research on LSU’s supercomputer and mentoring high-school students through competitive robotics, reflecting a blend of practical engineering and hands-on teaching. Outside work he pursues exploratory experiences (e.g., 30 days off-grid in the Utah mountains), suggesting a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Mandeville High School
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Louisiana State University