Nicholas Petreley
Freelance Writer at Cisco
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorNicholas Petreley is a versatile software engineer and freelance writer based in Austin with nearly a decade of formal engineering experience and a long career bridging journalism, tech, and creative production. He has held senior editorial roles at InfoWorld and Linux Journal, authored books, ran a nonprofit web project, and later combined technical writing, PHP development, security documentation, animation, and Selenium test automation at Avaya and the U.S. Courts. Since 2014 he’s been a developer support engineer at Cisco, thriving on varied responsibilities that span API documentation, web development, and developer tooling. Nicholas’s background as a performer, cartoonist, and radio producer informs a distinct voice that makes technical content accessible and often humorous—evident in his popular Down to the Wire column. He values telecommuting and remote-first work, a necessity he navigated as a single dad while leading editorial teams and building web projects. Currently freelancing as a writer, he blends deep technical fluency with storytelling and product-minded engineering.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (20)
irc6
audio6
instant-messaging6
chat5
java5
irc-server5
xmpp5
jabber4
icq4
sip4
protocols4
streaming4
php3
tcp3
php-library3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CiscoDevNet/cisco-im-p-api-examples
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 22 pushes in 6 days
npetreley/JabberSDKDemo
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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