Summary
Nick Cosentino is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 12+ years of experience building high-performance, secure infrastructure for large-scale services, focusing on routing, reverse proxying, caching throughput, and DDoS protection for M365/Substrate. A former technical manager and inventor with patents from his Magnet Forensics work, he combines deep hands-on C#/.NET engineering with people-first leadership that helps engineers level up. He founded Dev Leader and BrandGhost to scale technical content and personal branding, producing weekly newsletters, multiple YouTube channels, and a podcast that bring a manager’s perspective to developer education. Based in Lynnwood, WA and trained at the University of Waterloo, Nick is as comfortable tuning low-latency systems as he is coaching early-career engineers and creating systems to amplify creator impact.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Engineering, Honours Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, French