Nicholas Terwoord
Staff Engineer at Short Story
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNicholas Terwoord is a Staff Engineer with 13+ years building scalable web and front-end systems, currently focused on architecture and delivery at Short Story after leadership roles at GlossGenius, Square, and Shopify. He specializes in breaking monoliths into domain-focused services, designing low-latency feature-flag systems, and improving operational culture through on-call practices and runbooks. A self-described "Code Archaeologist," he excels at understanding legacy artifacts to inform robust, maintainable solutions across Java/Kotlin, Ruby, and modern JavaScript stacks. Beyond engineering, he co-produces a long-running podcast and video projects, bringing product instincts and cross-disciplinary collaboration to teams. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, he balances hands-on coding with mentorship and a knack for shipping pragmatic features that move the business.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Honours Computer Science Co-op Option, Bachelor of Computer Science Honours Computer Science Co-op Option at University of Waterloo
English
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nt3rp/theraceagainsttime-twitch-layouts
Dec 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:46 PRs, 62 pushes, 62 branches in 2 years 7 months
nt3rp/soundcloud-utilities
Jun 2016 - Mar 2021
Tools for working with soundcloud
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 10 months
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