Nicholas Sakaimbo
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Sakaimbo is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience and a strong backend focus, currently at GitHub after a multi-year tenure at Automattic. He architects and ships high-throughput services, CI/CD optimizations, and observability pipelines using TypeScript, Go, Postgres, Docker, and cloud platforms. Nicholas has driven measurable impact—designing telemetry engines that process hundreds of thousands of daily events, cutting desktop CI build times by 40–80%, and building encrypted sync APIs for a journaling app with 500k+ monthly users. He also bridges desktop and mobile worlds, contributing front- and full-stack work to high-profile open-source projects like WordPress.com Desktop and Calypso. Comfortable unifying legacy systems into maintainable Go backends, he pairs pragmatic engineering with product-minded collaboration across iOS, Electron, and backend teams. His academic grounding in mathematics and applied economics informs a data-conscious approach to building reliable, scalable systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Applied Economics, Master of Science - MS Applied Economics at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (14)
javascript10
electron10
redux10
react10
gutenberg9
testing9
spellchecking9
desktop-application9
wordpress9
cicd8
githubaction-workflow7
html7
github-ci7
css6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-desktop
Nov 2019 - Jul 2021
WordPress.com for Desktop
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 145 commits, 262 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the WordPress.com for Desktop application, focusing on Electron-related upgrades, bug fixes, and feature enhancements. They addressed dependency updates for Electron and related packages, implemented native spellchecking, and improved the test suite. They also made code changes to handle external links and implemented improvements to the application's printing functionality.
wordpresselectrondesktop
Automattic/wp-calypso
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:158 reviews, 200 commits, 216 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the WordPress.com Calypso project, focusing on the front-end. Their work involved enhancing the Gutenberg editor, including adding events to support features like spellchecking. They also implemented modifications to the desktop application, such as overriding "View Post" behavior, handling window events, and integrating native notification messages. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience and integrating the web-based application with the desktop environment.
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