Nick Minkler
Portland, Oregon, United States
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SeniorNicholas Minkler is a Lead Software Engineer in Portland, OR with 15 years of experience building backend applications, developer tooling, and production-ready Java services on Linux and Windows. He currently leads engineering efforts at Nike after a long tenure delivering RESTful Spring Boot services, CI/CD automation, and custom Linux distributions at Integrated Services. An entrepreneurial technologist, he authored a widely used Minecraft economy API deployed on over 50,000 servers and contributed backend improvements to the Vault Bukkit plugin, demonstrating practical, game-focused systems design. Nicholas pairs hands-on coding and tooling with mentoring and process improvements—having formalized build and delivery pipelines, trained junior engineers, and reduced repair and delivery cycles in past roles. He looks for roles centered on backend application development and tooling where his blend of systems, tooling, and open-source experience can accelerate delivery.
15 years of coding experience
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Github contributions (5)
MilkBowl/Vault
Jul 2011 - Jul 2020
Vault of common APIs for Bukkit Plugins
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 584 commits, 35 PRs in 9 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the development of the Vault API for the Bukkit plugin, focusing on enhancing permission and economy features. Their work included adding methods for group and player management, incorporating bank account support, and improving the currency formatting. They also added support for several economy systems.
bukkitvault
Sleaker/UnityVoxelTest
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 1 month
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