Nicholas Whitehead
Principal Engineer at DriveWealth
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Whitehead is a Principal Engineer based in New Jersey with more than two decades of hands-on development and technical leadership, specializing in high-performance, scalable systems in the Java ecosystem. He has led architecture and performance initiatives across finance and enterprise domains—from reducing end-of-day clearing from four hours to 30 minutes at ICE to modernizing payroll platforms at ADP—and currently drives backend engineering at DriveWealth. A pragmatist who blends deep systems knowledge (JMX, agents, Netty, Kafka, HBase, OpenTSDB) with mentoring experience, he’s improved observability and real-time publishing in open-source time-series tooling. Nick’s career shows a pattern of porting and hardening complex legacy systems for stability and scale, and he often pairs hands-on coding with tooling and process improvements that raise team velocity.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Biology, Biology at Newcastle University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
timeseries-database10
javas10
configuration-management10
java10
rpc9
hbase9
r6
plotly6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OpenTSDB/opentsdb
Dec 2013 - Oct 2016
A scalable, distributed Time Series Database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 33 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to improving the core functionality of OpenTSDB, a time-series database. Their work included extending the stats collection mechanism to include plugin instances and fixing a bug in the UIDMeta.getStorageJSON() method. They also implemented the publishing of annotations, enhancing the real-time publishing capabilities. Furthermore, the user was involved in addressing deployment and configuration improvements.
scalabletime-series-databaseseries-databasetimeseries-databasedistributed-database
nickman/tsdb-plugins
Oct 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:401 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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