Nick Dechant
Software Engineer, Core Product Infrastructure at Pinterest
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNick Dechant is a software engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale distributed systems and content infrastructure at Pinterest, currently focused on core product infrastructure and massive shopping content ingestion. He has progressed from founding infrastructure work—co-authoring Pinterest’s open-source deploy service Teletraan and autoscaling features—to leading teams that manage hundreds of billions of visual assets and enabled new revenue streams through multimedia platforms. Equally comfortable in backend systems and full-stack integrations, Nick has shipped production deployment UI and auth integrations as well as predictive autoscaling and AWS capacity tooling. He played a key role in Trust & Safety and in launching native video on the platform, helping minimize risk ahead of IPO. Based in San Francisco and grounded in a Computer Science degree from UT Austin, he pairs hands-on engineering with technical leadership on high-throughput, lifecycle-driven services.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (12)
html10
javascript10
swagger-ui10
python9
django9
autoscaling9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
aws8
css7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
pinterest/teletraan
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
Teletraan is Pinterest's deploy system.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:106 commits, 72 PRs, 45 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the deployment board, adding and revising swagger UI templates, including the index and o2c HTML files and associated Javascript libraries. They also worked on integrating authentication within the swagger UI interface, modifying the index.html and the docs_views.py files. Further contributions include revisions to deploy-board's run.sh script and the integration of AWS capacity calls. Additional work includes adding and refactoring calls related to predictive autoscaling.
dockerpinterest
nickdechant/teletraan
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:53 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
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