Nicholas Rushton
Software Engineer at Qualtrics
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Rushton is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building large-scale analytics, APIs, and data infrastructure from Seattle. Currently at Qualtrics, he previously designed cost-saving Cassandra clusters and high-throughput Hadoop/Spark pipelines at Tune, and built low-latency dashboard APIs that queried terabytes of data under strict SLAs. He has a strong full-stack background dating back to LAMP development and API work at Intelius and Central Washington University, and a BS in Computer Science. An enduring learner, he also published fasts3, an open-source S3 tool capable of listing millions of keys in minutes, demonstrating a practical drive to solve performance bottlenecks.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.), General Studies, Associate of Arts (A.A.), General Studies at Green River Community CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Central Washington University
Github Skills (85)
databases10
hadoop10
cpp10
trino10
sql-query10
solidity10
prestodb10
big-data10
api10
rest10
sql10
presto10
database10
data-science10
distributed-systems10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rushton/logbook
Apr 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:36 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
rushton/dot-files
Apr 2013 - Jan 2023
Contributions:95 commits, 117 pushes in 9 years 10 months
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