Nicholas Van Wiggeren
Chief Technology Officer at PlanetScale
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolNicholas Van Wiggeren is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO at PlanetScale with 12 years of experience building and scaling infrastructure, storage, and database-focused products. He rose through engineering and leadership roles at PlanetScale and GitHub, driving public APIs, platform interfaces, and large-scale infrastructure teams. Nicholas has hands-on systems engineering roots from DigitalOcean, where he led block storage and monitoring launches and optimized petabyte-scale storage systems in Go. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed meaningful backend work to the widely used go-dockerclient, improving Docker API support and maintainability. Based in Seattle with a University of Washington Informatics degree, he blends product-minded strategy with deep technical execution in distributed systems and databases.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Informatics, Bachelor's Degree, Informatics at University of Washington
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (7)
golang10
docker10
go10
api10
apidoc10
dockers10
network-programming9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
fsouza/go-dockerclient
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Go client for the Docker Engine API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 15 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the `go-dockerclient` repository by implementing features related to the Docker Engine API, particularly around container management and networking. Their work involved adding functionality for container updates, network listing, and incorporating new parameters aligned with the 1.22 API specifications. The user also refactored code to utilize official Docker info structs, improving the structure and maintainability of the codebase. This work suggests a focus on maintaining and expanding the client's capabilities to interact with various Docker functionalities.
docker-enginego
nickvanw/infping
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
Parse fping output, store result in influxdb
Contributions:17 commits, 8 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 1 month
influxdb
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.