Nicholas Jones
Software Engineer at Principal Financial Group
Urbandale, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Jones is a software engineer based in Urbandale, Iowa with 11 years of industry experience and a B.S. in Software Engineering from the University of Northern Colorado. He has practical expertise across Java, Python, and C#, and has worked on GUI automation, big data validation, and automated testing pipelines at Dish Network and Principal Financial Group. At Dish he combined QA and data-focused work—writing tests in Groovy, Python, Ruby, Hive/Impala and shell—to validate metadata and STB workflows, and now applies that blend of testing and engineering at Principal. Academically he ranked in the top 10% nationally on the TestOut Network Pro exam and graduated with a 3.51 GPA, reflecting strong fundamentals in networking and security as well as software. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges QA rigor and software development to deliver reliable systems. He brings a steady focus on automation and data integrity that helps teams move from manual verification to repeatable, production-ready testing.
11 years of coding experience
High School Diploma, 3.66 GPA, High School Diploma, 3.66 GPA at Prairie View High SchoolBachelors Degree, Software Engineering, Bachelors Degree, Software Engineering at University of Northern ColoradoGithub contributions (5)
Najones19746/Najones19746.github.io
Aug 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:35 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
Najones19746/saltyBetter
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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