Nicholas Lippis
Engineering Lead at Grepr
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Lippis is an Engineering Lead in San Francisco with a decade of experience building distributed systems, databases, and tooling grounded in formal methods and programming languages. He has progressed through engineering roles at VMware and Imply before taking a leadership position at Grepr, combining hands-on system design with team-level delivery. His background in computer engineering and multi-year focus on data infrastructure give him a pragmatic eye for reliability and performance in large-scale services. Colleagues would note his blend of deep technical curiosity and practical product instincts—he often brings formal reasoning to real-world engineering tradeoffs.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Boston University
Github Skills (12)
apache-druid10
database10
druid10
java8
kubernetes-operator6
linux6
apache-flink5
systemd5
big-data5
system4
init3
compile-time2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nlippis/druid
Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
Apache Druid: a high performance real-time analytics database.
Contributions:36 pushes, 22 branches in 3 months
grepr/flink-kubernetes-operator
Aug 2024 - Jun 2025
Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator
Contributions:10 reviews, 1 push, 2 branches in 10 months
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