Nicholas Licalzi
Staff Engineer at Shopify
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Licalzi is a Staff Engineer based in Brooklyn with eight years of experience building full-stack and distributed systems using Ruby, JavaScript, Python, TypeScript, Go, React, and Next.js. He currently shapes platform work at Shopify after progressing from Senior Engineer, and previously co-created Dendro, an open-source serverless monitoring framework for small distributed apps. His background blends urban data science and software engineering—an MS from NYU CUSP and early work as an urban data scientist inform his pragmatic approach to observability and system design. Nicholas favors serverless architectures and developer ergonomics, and maintains an active GitHub and personal site where he documents tooling and infrastructure experiments.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Metropolitan Studies, Bachelor's degree Metropolitan Studies at New York UniversityMS Applied Urban Science & Informatics, MS Applied Urban Science & Informatics at NYU Center for Urban Science + ProgressSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at Launch School
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (37)
strava-api9
python-bindings8
geocoding8
h38
nyc8
mediawiki-extension7
hexagonal-architecture7
gis7
mobility6
geospatial6
pii6
diaspora6
vitest5
react5
nodejs5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nlicalzi/nlicalzi.github.io
Apr 2019 - Jan 2026
Contributions:35 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 10 months
nlicalzi/launch_school
Jun 2019 - Mar 2021
a repository for working on/storing materials related to the Launch School curriculum.
Contributions:4 PRs, 1147 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
curriculumpythonstoringworking-on
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