Nicholas Eden
Staff Software Engineer at Happy Returns, a UPS Company
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Eden is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with 12 years building scalable web and backend systems, specializing in Angular front-ends and Go services for enterprise workloads. He has led integrations across major e-commerce platforms (Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce) and shipping partners while architecting a data reporting platform using DBT, Redshift, Airflow and multi-source ingestion from Postgres, DynamoDB and Salesforce. Prior roles span gaming, edtech, and high-traffic consumer apps where he shipped payment and matchmaking services, unified course APIs, and performance-focused REST platforms. He enjoys digging into internals and improving reliability and testability—evidenced by contributions to the popular Carbon PHP library where he added robust tests and pragmatic bug workarounds. Nicholas combines hands-on implementation with cross-team tooling and analytics initiatives, and he’s driven feature flagging and observability improvements in production. Based in Seattle, he brings a pragmatic curiosity for new technologies and a track record of turning complex integrations into maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Media, Digital Media at Butler Community College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
php10
testing10
json6
caching6
jquery-ui6
html6
javascript6
angular-ui6
jquery6
getjson6
angularjs6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
briannesbitt/Carbon
Sep 2013 - Dec 2015
A simple PHP API extension for DateTime.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 17 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to adding and improving unit tests for the `Carbon` PHP library. They added tests for relative date parsing, covering scenarios like "tomorrow", "yesterday", and variations involving time components. The user also addressed a PHP bug related to setting dates and implemented a workaround to ensure correct behavior. Furthermore, the user implemented code style improvements and whitespace trimming.
datetimeapiphpphp-api
nicholas-eden/townsquare
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Blood on the Clocktower virtual grimoire & town square
Contributions:9 reviews, 24 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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