Nicholas Holthaus
Mechanical Engineer at Anduril Industries
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Holthaus is a mechanical engineer with 11 years of experience and 7+ years focused on driving electronic packaging from concept through manufactured product, currently applying his skills at Anduril Industries. He blends hands-on electro-mechanical design and fabrication—milling, CNC, PCB assembly, thermal and stress analysis—with program-level SETA experience in power and cooling infrastructure from his work at SAIC. A C++ software engineer in open source, he authored and contributed to a compile-time, header-only units library, demonstrating a knack for precise, type-safe engineering tools that complement his hardware work. With an MEng from Johns Hopkins and a background in engineering leadership from the University of Maryland, he excels at bridging mechanical design, firmware-adjacent software, and field deployment to deliver robust, testable systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering Major Engineering Leadership Development Minor, Mechanical Engineering Major Engineering Leadership Development Minor at University of MarylandMaster of Engineering - MEng Mechanical Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
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Github Skills (18)
multidimensional10
template-metaprogramming10
dimensional-modeling10
unit-conversion10
cprogramming-language10
two-dimensional10
qt9
user-interface9
cmake9
visual-studio9
attribute9
sfinae6
qt-stylesheets6
windows6
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nholthaus/units
Jan 2016 - Oct 2022
a compile-time, header-only, dimensional analysis and unit conversion library built on c++14 with no dependencies.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 10 reviews, 447 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the implementation of a compile-time, header-only, dimensional analysis and unit conversion library in C++14. Their work focused on defining and implementing a variety of unit types, especially for length, mass, time, and angle. Further contributions included the development of supporting traits, functions, and operator overloads to enable compile-time unit manipulation and conversion.
dependenciesc-plus-plusunitcompile-timetemplate-metaprogramming
nholthaus/minesweeper
Sep 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:11 releases, 22 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 6 months
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