Nicholas Perkins
Staff Software Engineer at SPS Commerce
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Perkins is a Staff Software Engineer in Minneapolis with a decade of experience designing pragmatic, well-architected JVM and web solutions at scale. As technical lead at SPS Commerce he has driven migrations of critical legacy systems to modern Java/Kotlin stacks, owned the company’s shared JVM library, and shaped APIs, UIs, schemas, and deployment patterns for core data applications. He pairs full‑stack fluency (Java/Kotlin, JavaScript, SQL, Dropwizard, Docker, AWS) with hands‑on operational experience in build tooling and zero‑downtime deployment workflows. Earlier work includes leading a Flash-to-HTML5 product transition and automating cloud deployments, reflecting a knack for modernizing long-lived systems. Known for balancing sound design with pragmatic tradeoffs, he combines strong academic roots in computer science (BS, 3.98 GPA) with a practical client-facing background from freelance web design.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Hopkins High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.98, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.98 at Metropolitan State UniversityComputer Science, General, Computer Science, General at Illinois Wesleyan UniversityBiology, Policial Science, Biology, Policial Science at University of St. Thomas
English
Github Skills (29)
gradle10
java9
groovy9
kotlin9
client-library8
webservice8
jax-rs7
rest7
dropwizard7
automation7
api7
hibernate7
jetty7
docker-java6
rest-api6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nicholas-s-perkins/4chanImageViewer
Nov 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 13 pushes in 3 years 3 months
nicholas-s-perkins/nicholas-s-perkins.github.io
Jul 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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