Nick Braun
Principal Software Engineer Cloud R&D at ExtraHop Networks
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Braun is a Principal Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience building scalable cloud-native systems and modern web UIs from FPGA-level logic to full-stack JavaScript and Go microservices. Based in Seattle, he has led architecture and modernization efforts—migrating legacy AngularJS apps to React/TypeScript, integrating Monaco for TypeScript-aware editors, and launching the company’s first production SaaS on Kubernetes/AWS. His background in embedded C++ and FPGA design gives him a systems-first perspective that informs reliable, performant cloud and SRE work, including on-call ownership and custom diagnostics tooling. Nick enjoys hacking on React apps and building Go microservices in his spare time, and has shipped production features that extend ML-driven anomaly detection and demo automation used across product, training, and sales.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Data Science, Certificate Data Science at University of WashingtonBachelors of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelors of Science Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English
Github Skills (68)
deno10
javascript10
rust10
typescript10
vscode10
ide10
stylelint9
metalsmith9
development-environment9
api8
rest8
rest-api8
api-client8
nodejs8
debugging8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
njbraun/stylelint-order
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
A plugin pack of order related linting rules for stylelint.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
linterlinteslintlintinglinting-rules
ExtraHop/metalsmith-sitemap
Aug 2016 - Oct 2018
A metalsmith plugin for generating a sitemap.xml file.
Contributions:3 releases, 14 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 1 month
metalsmith
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