Nick Depinet
Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNick Depinet is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building developer-facing platforms and tooling, currently helping scale the GitHub Copilot platform from Seattle. He spent the bulk of his career at Microsoft rising through engineering ranks and most recently led work on Microsoft Dev Box, demonstrating expertise in cloud-native developer productivity and platform reliability. Nick combines deep product-focus with hands-on implementation across infrastructure and developer experience, often working at the intersection of editor tooling, CI/CD and cloud provisioning. His trajectory from early internships to principal-level roles suggests strong mentorship and cross-team collaboration skills that accelerate delivery in large organizations. Outside core engineering, his background includes embedded customer-facing improvements (OOBE work at Nebula) which informs a practical empathy for end users of platform services.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyNew Albany High School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (94)
azure-functions10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
visual-studio10
rest-api10
openapi10
azure-sdk10
dotnet10
editor10
api10
sdk10
rest10
azure10
electron10
typescript10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nickdepinet/powershell-cmdlets
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Powershell Cmdlets Used at Work
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 7 months
mdtpowershell-modulescmdletspowershellps1
nickdepinet/resume
Aug 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
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