Nicholas聽Gorajski
Staff Software Engineer at Kohl's
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Gorajski is a Staff Software Engineer based in Chicago with over a decade of experience building reliable, team-centered software across finance, healthcare, insurance, and defense contracting. He combines full-stack hands-on skills (React, Typescript, Java, Ruby on Rails, Python, Go, Docker, SQL, AWS/Terraform) with a strong emphasis on DevOps, test-driven development, and iterative delivery. Nicholas is known for translating complex systems into clear explanations and designing governance and deployment systems that dramatically improved stability for large enterprises. He consistently fosters psychological safety, pair programming, and short feedback loops to create high-performing, collaborative teams. Stakeholders seek him out for candid, analytical reasoning while colleagues value the practical mentorship and humor he brings to stressful projects. An interesting throughline in his career is his background in hardware and QA engineering, which informs a disciplined, systems-level approach to software reliability and process improvement.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at Dev BootcampBachelor of Science Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bradley University
Github Skills (15)
json-api6
stylish5
api5
rails4
gitlab4
ruby-on-rails4
graphiti4
ruby4
api-server4
bootstrapping3
graphql3
graph3
microservices2
pocket1
java1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gorajski/Tic-Tac-Toe-Learner
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:124 commits, 106 PRs, 81 pushes in 8 months
gorajski/manglebrot
Sep 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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