Nick Cruess
Staff Engineer at evermore
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Cruess is a Staff Engineer based in Chicago with a background across health tech, cybersecurity, and financial services, currently shaping architecture and engineering practices at Soda Health/evermore. He brings hands-on experience building high-throughput distributed systems and stream/transactional processing in Go, Java, and Python, and has delivered big-data platforms integrating Presto/Trino, Kafka, and S3 at scale. Nick focuses on identifying "the next things" in system design and fostering engineering excellence, pairing pragmatic implementation with architectural vision. Outside work he’s a voracious reader, a habit that informs his breadth of interests and keeps him sharp on emerging patterns and trade-offs.
2 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Management Information Systems, Computer Science at Texas McCombs School of Business
English, Spanish
Github Skills (23)
postgresql9
golang9
go8
cas8
acl8
access-control7
permission7
authz7
authorization7
authentication7
oauth7
abac7
auth6
rbac6
casbin5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sodahealth/pgx
Jul 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
jackc/pgx
Jul 2024 - Jan 2025
PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 3 comments in 6 months
golangpostgresql-drivergopostgrespostgresql
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