Nick Bollweg
Manager, Emerging Solutions at John Deere
New Vienna, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Bollweg is an engineering manager with 15 years of experience leading precision construction and telematics initiatives at John Deere, where he drives grade control, data analytics, and JDLink integrations for Construction & Forestry equipment. He combines an MIT mechanical engineering background and an MBA with hands-on product and market research skills honed by co-founding a manufacturing startup and running customer ethnography programs. Comfortable across hardware, firmware, and cloud-connected software, he pairs system-level HVAC and cooling simulation expertise from earlier R&D work with modern CI/CD and DevOps practices demonstrated through substantial open-source contributions to projects like Jupyter, SymPy, and conda-forge. A pragmatic leader who still writes and tests code, he’s known for improving front-end UX (MathJax and widget rendering), strengthening test automation, and streamlining build pipelines to ship robust, customer-centered solutions.
16 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMBA, MBA at University of Dubuque
Github Skills (117)
conda-build10
python10
sympy10
testing10
bash10
cookiecutter10
ipython10
language-server-protocol10
gruntjs10
automation10
ci-cd-pipeline10
build-automation10
dockerfile10
robotframework10
bootstra10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jupyter/nbformat
Nov 2014 - Mar 2022
Reference implementation of the Jupyter Notebook format
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 10 commits, 1 PR in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to upgrading the Jupyter Notebook format by implementing and testing changes related to Unicode handling in cell upgrades, specifically for heading cells. They focused on ensuring more human-readable Unicode characters within the test suite and improved warnings. Furthermore, the user addressed deprecation warnings by updating `nbformat` and bumping jsonschema versions, which improves code quality. They also made code changes related to validator and test suite.
jupyter-notebook
conda-forge/staged-recipes
Dec 2017 - Jan 2023
A place to submit conda recipes before they become fully fledged conda-forge feedstocks
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:269 reviews, 579 commits, 335 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the configuration and maintenance of the CI/CD pipeline for conda-forge recipes. Their work involved modifying build scripts, workflow files (GitHub Actions), and environment configurations. The user also added and integrated new packages and libraries (e.g. actionlint) into the build process. These efforts focused on streamlining and enhancing the automated build and testing processes within the repository.
condaconda-forge
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