Nick Dichev
Co-Founder at Portal Wholesale
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Dichev is a hands-on co-founder and backend engineer with nine years building scalable distributed systems and APIs, skilled in Elixir, Go, and cloud-native tooling. He has driven high-impact platform work—reducing P99 startup latency from 6s to 900ms and cutting GPU cloud spend by migrating workloads to CPU—while leading live streaming, transcoding, and AIGC services. Nick has repeatedly owned API and data platform initiatives that unlocked revenue and observability, from launching public APIs to instrumenting systems with OpenTelemetry. Based in San Diego, he combines deep systems thinking with pragmatic delivery across AWS, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kafka and CI/CD. Outside of work he balances analytical curiosity with hands-on crafts like ceramics and bonsai, reflecting a patient, iterative approach to engineering and leadership.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (87)
elixir10
telemetry10
grafana-dashboard10
beam9
linux9
nerves-project9
grafana9
vue-ssr9
server-side-rendering9
vitejs9
react-ssr9
full-stack9
prometheus9
react8
ide8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nickdichev/dotfiles
Feb 2021 - Jul 2026
Contributions:172 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 5 months
nickdichev/giveaway-live
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
Another Phoenix LiveView example application.
Contributions:37 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 4 months
phoenix-liveview
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