Nick Chamberlain
Staff Software Engineer at Olo
Salisbury, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolNick Chamberlain is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing resilient, event-driven systems and platform engineering for domains ranging from manufacturing to restaurant technology. He specializes in reactive programming, messaging architectures, and distributed microservices, and has hands-on expertise debugging and optimizing performance at scale. Nick has contributed to the canonical Akka.NET project—hardening its persistence modules and improving diagnostics for SQLite backends—reflecting a strong commitment to robust, observable systems. Beyond product roles at Olo and Petabridge, he authored a practical book on Event Sourcing and CQRS and runs a technical blog, showing he pairs deep systems work with clear public-facing documentation. Based in Salisbury, MD, he brings a hybrid background in GIS and software which gives him pragmatic strengths in data modeling and infrastructure-driven problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., GIS Management, M.S., GIS Management at Salisbury University
Github Skills (13)
net10
asp-net10
error-handling10
logging10
dotnet10
sqlite10
persistence10
akka10
csharp10
actor-model10
dotnet-core10
sql9
concurrency8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
akkadotnet/akka.net
Mar 2017 - Sep 2017
Canonical actor model implementation for .NET with local + distributed actors in C# and F#.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 89 commits, 119 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily worked on improving the Akka.NET persistence module. They added logging and error handling to the `SqlJournal` and `SqlSnapshotStore` components to provide more informative failure messages. Furthermore, they revised code related to initialization failures, particularly within the `Initialize()` methods. Their contributions focused on enhancing the robustness and diagnostic capabilities of the persistence features within the Akka.NET framework, specifically for SQLite implementations.
actor-modelcsharpdotnetakkaconcurrency
heynickc/firstpopcoffee
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Sample project for my book Applying Domain Driven Design with CQRS and Event Sourcing
Contributions:28 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
cqrsdomain-driven-designevent-sourcing
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