Nicholas Whelan
Principal Software Engineer at Indeed.com
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
6 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 (88)
jenkins-api-plugin10
python10
django10
kotlin-multiplatform10
audit10
auditing10
kotlin10
strongly-typed10
robot10
apollographql9
url-parsing9
jenkins-plugin9
multiplatform9
caching9
jsinterop9
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
dataminingurisuffixurl-parserpublicsuffix
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
pythondjangoboostrapdjango-admindjango-app
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