Nick Clucas
Founding Engineer at GDU Labs
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNick Clucas is a Founding Engineer and full-stack Ruby on Rails specialist with 11 years of production experience building secure, well-documented APIs and resilient infrastructure. Based in Boston, he’s hands-on across the stack—from Postgres and Redis to AWS, DigitalOcean, OpenStack and event-sourced architectures—often driving migrations and low-downtime RDS cutovers. He’s led engineering efforts at startups and scale-ups, shipping auditing systems, JWT authorization frameworks, and real-time dashboards while championing test suites and GitHub best practices. Currently building an AI-powered platform to turn fragmented professional data into verified profiles, he combines a background in chemical engineering with practical infrastructure security expertise—reflecting a penchant for systems thinking and careful operational design.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
HS Degree, HS Degree at St. John's Preparatory SchoolBSChE Chemical Engineering, BSChE Chemical Engineering at Villanova University
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Github Skills (42)
postgresql10
mysql10
backup10
slack10
mongodb10
encryption10
database10
unix9
ruby9
full-stack9
python8
presenter7
home-assistant7
stat7
iot7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nickcluc/golf
Feb 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:50 PRs, 99 pushes, 49 branches in 7 years 4 months
nickcluc/fantasy_football_api
Dec 2016 - Nov 2021
we're sabermetrics guys, not stat guys
Contributions:70 commits, 6 PRs, 80 pushes in 4 years 11 months
apimachine-learningstatsabermetricsespn
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