Nicholas Waynik
Vice President Software Engineering & Architecture at Robots & Pencils
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Waynik is a Vice President of Software Engineering & Architecture with 14 years of experience leading cloud-native transformations and product engineering from Pittsburgh. He has a strong full-stack background—moving monoliths to microservices, building multi-tenant Node.js and Java services, and automating AWS infrastructure with Terraform—while coaching teams and owning growth and hiring. Nicholas pairs hands-on mobile and backend expertise (iOS through Java/Node) with business acumen from an MBA, enabling pragmatic technical decisions that align with product and finance systems. His career includes architecting Slack-integrated LMS tooling, student-ledger financial microservices integrated with Nelnet and Workday, and scaling white-label bidding platforms, demonstrating an unusual blend of education, finance, and auction domain experience. A former Marine Corps network administrator with secret clearance experience, he brings disciplined leadership and operational rigor to complex engineering transformations.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (31)
css10
coding-conventions10
conventions10
credit8
ios7
ruby7
android7
android-apps6
apple-pay6
square6
credit-card6
storekit6
in-app-purchase5
sdk5
automation5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kodecocodes/objective-c-style-guide
Nov 2013 - Apr 2014
A style guide that outlines the coding conventions for raywenderlich.com
Contributions:50 commits in 5 months
coding-conventionscssstyle-guideraywenderlichoutlines
ndubbs/TickTackToe
Apr 2012 - Apr 2012
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
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