Nicholas Johnson
Principal Data Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Johnson is a Principal Data Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems and data platforms, currently based in Portland, Oregon. He has led data engineering efforts at major game and entertainment companies including Epic Games, Activision, and Blizzard, building time-series stores, real-time aggregation, and eventing systems that support millions of users. Nicholas combines hands-on software craftsmanship—from parsing heterogeneous data feeds to architecting columnar storage—with leadership in scaling production data pipelines. His background includes building integrated web experiences and bespoke data tooling as an independent developer, demonstrating a flair for pragmatic end-to-end solutions. Colleagues rely on his ability to translate complex domain needs into resilient infrastructure and operational practices. Outside of work he brings a long-standing curiosity for new stacks and distributed systems that started in early personal projects and teaching.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Mississippi State University
English
Github Skills (38)
jquery-plugin10
twitch10
cheerio10
parser10
jquery10
discord10
scraper10
dom10
selector10
chat9
html8
javascript7
react6
poe6
pathofexile6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
destinygg/chat-bot
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
The Current Moderation Chat Bot running on destiny.gg
Contributions:3 reviews, 198 commits, 91 PRs in 4 years
discordbotchattwitchchat-bot
linusred/file_movement_tool
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years
pythonrecursivelywxpythonexcercisegui
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