Nick Catalano
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNick Catalano is a seasoned technology leader and founding engineer with 13 years of experience building mission-driven, scalable web platforms across healthcare and civic tech. As CTO of Kinstead he’s architecting HIPAA-aligned, EHR-integrated systems that enable nurse practitioners to launch independent practices, after leading distributed teams and shipping Epic-backed scheduling and AI-driven patient intake systems at Fabric. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Python, Django/FastAPI, Next.js, and AWS, and has a track record of accelerating delivery through AI-assisted workflows and pragmatic infrastructure migrations. A former director and CTO for high-profile civic campaigns, he built voter-facing systems that supported tens of millions of users and contributed backend work to widely used open-source projects like simple-salesforce. Based in New York, he combines product-minded engineering leadership with a background in political organization—an uncommon blend that helps him translate complex policy-driven requirements into reliable, production-ready software.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA Political Science Computer Science, BA Political Science Computer Science at Loyola University ChicagoUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Github Skills (16)
rest-api10
api10
python10
apidoc10
salesforce10
http-request10
api-client10
soql9
json9
django6
simple-salesforce6
django-middleware6
amazon-ecs6
amazon-web-services6
wsgi6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
simple-salesforce/simple-salesforce
Jan 2013 - Mar 2020
A very simple Salesforce.com REST API client for Python
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 112 commits, 28 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nick focused on developing and maintaining the backend logic for the Salesforce REST API client, implementing core functionalities such as API calls, query handling, and SObject interactions. Their contributions included the initial implementation of the API client, refactoring to improve code readability, and adding support for new features such as upsert. They also addressed various issues, including handling unicode errors and updating to more modern python conventions for string formatting.
api-clientapipythonsalesforcerest-api-client
ofa/connect
Oct 2015 - Jul 2019
Archived Project - Please see forks such as @organizerconnect/connect
Contributions:122 commits, 53 PRs, 66 pushes in 3 years 8 months
archivedforks
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