Nick Ficano
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNick Ficano is a seasoned software leader with 14 years building secure, scalable healthcare platforms and production-grade cloud infrastructure in highly regulated environments. As a co-founder and CTO he has owned platform strategy and architecture across RCM, benefit verification, and patient-facing systems, and previously helped ship secure systems at Twitter and early-stage products at Simple Health and OneReceipt. He specializes in designing ePHI-compliant, HIPAA-aligned systems and data pipelines that move ideas from zero to one and scale into durable platforms. An active open-source maintainer, his python tooling and documentation contributions have improved projects used by millions of developers. Based in New York, he combines hands-on engineering, security stewardship, and product sensibility—having even built a passive-income HIPAA e-learning product and a patented vision engine for mobile PD tracking.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Information Systems, Computer Information Systems at Southern Connecticut State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
boto10
python10
aws-lambda10
aws10
serverless10
documentation10
code-formatting10
file-management9
yaml9
pip9
microservices8
automations8
automation8
microservices-application8
cicd8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pytube/pytube
Mar 2012 - Dec 2022
A lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 640 commits, 87 PRs in 10 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on maintaining and improving the project's documentation. They cleaned up the README file to showcase more features and fixed code formatting issues. They also modified the file sanitization method, addressing unicode errors and refactoring functions to make their code more readable and maintainable.
downloadingpython-librarydownloaderpythonapi-wrapper
nficano/python-lambda
Feb 2016 - Apr 2021
A toolkit for developing and deploying serverless Python code in AWS Lambda.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:230 commits, 46 PRs, 159 pushes in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on setting up and improving the project's codebase by cleaning up boilerplate code. This included refactoring the codebase, fixing formatting issues, and updating the documentation. They also made changes to the deployment configuration files and workflow, indicating some involvement in setting up or managing the deployment process. They implemented several automated steps to facilitate the creation of project files.
deployingpython-codepythondevelopingaws-lambda
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