Nicholas Whelan
Technical Fellow (Director Level IC) at Indeed
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Whelan is a Technical Fellow and director-level individual contributor with 13+ years building scalable, reliable systems at Indeed, where he has progressed from technical lead to Principal Engineer and now senior engineering leadership. He specializes in search and indexing at scale—designing multi-datacenter job index pipelines and a unified Elasticsearch-backed contact search that made him an internal and external Elastic stack subject matter expert. Nick has a strong track record of turning prototypes into profitable products, architecting multi-currency billing and automated invoicing systems, and creating fast iteration pipelines that shave weeks off feature delivery. He is also deeply invested in talent development and recruiting, having conducted over 1,000 interviews and actively representing Indeed at university career events and coding competitions. Based in Austin, he blends hands-on engineering with team-building and operational rigor, often moving from low-level design into product and reliability concerns. A less obvious strength is his emphasis on automating business processes—transforming internal workflows into autonomous teams that scale with global growth.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English
Stackoverflow
38reputation
1kreached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (62)
python10
django10
auditing10
strongly-typed9
kotlin9
kotlin-multiplatform9
android9
graphql-client9
jenkins-plugin9
apollographql9
apache-kafka8
graphql8
tld8
serialization8
caching8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ndwhelan/effective-TLDs
Aug 2013 - Jul 2022
PHP code to build TLD Suffix set from publicsuffix.org, as well as a class for determining a domain's public suffix.
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 9 years
phptld
ndwhelan/django-auditlog
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
A Django app that keeps a log of changes made to an object.
Contributions:15 pushes, 5 branches, 2 tags in 1 month
django
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