Summary
Nicholas Otto is a frontend-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently shaping user-facing systems on Google Cloud Platform's Cloud SQL team from New York. He led a major framework migration there, driving architectural shifts from MVC toward Flux and advocating for code health and declarative patterns. Earlier startup and nonprofit work gave him broad product exposure—from billing and marketing automation at FarmLogs to building interactive mapping and admin tooling for the Roosevelt Institute. Comfortable across stacks, he’s shipped projects in Django, Angular, Java/WebObjects and pragmatic tooling for research and support teams. He blends hands-on implementation with design conversations, and is particularly interested in making experiences more accessible and maintainable.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Michigan