Summary
Nicholas Istre is a cloud-native R&D support engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience spanning server, network, and database administration as well as full-stack software development. Currently at Samsung SDS America, he brings a track record of senior engineering roles across remote and hybrid environments, shipping reliable systems for adtech, payments, and sports tech companies. He’s comfortable across Linux, Windows, PostgreSQL, SQL Server and modern source control, and has led teams and migrations that improved performance and operational resilience. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he pairs broad infrastructure knowledge with an eagerness to adopt new technologies to meet customer needs. A strong academic foundation in computer science (3.85 GPA) underpins a career that blends hands-on implementation with systems-level thinking.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, 3.85, Bachelors, Computer Science, 3.85 at University of Louisiana at Lafayette