Nick Graef
IT Software Architect at Nelnet
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolNick Graef is an IT Software Architect with a decade of experience designing developer tools, platforms, and scalable backend systems from the Denver area. He blends hands-on engineering with architecture work at Nelnet, focused on improving developer workflows and solving complex distributed-systems problems. An active contributor to the Moleculer Node.js microservices framework, he’s improved service versioning, broadcasting behavior, and expanded test coverage for NATS and AMQP transports—efforts that reflect a commitment to reliability and observability. Eager to learn new technologies, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong test automation and tracing improvements that help teams ship safer, faster software.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
testing10
microservices-application10
moleculer10
nodejs10
microservices10
test-automation10
unit-testing9
microservice-framework9
distributed-systems9
tracer8
trace8
natsio8
amqp8
nat8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
moleculerjs/moleculer
Nov 2018 - Oct 2021
:rocket: Progressive microservices framework for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Nick made several contributions focused on improving the Moleculer framework. They addressed bugs related to service versioning and broadcasting, ensuring correct action calls and event handling. Additionally, the user enhanced testing by adding comprehensive test cases for both NATS and AMQP transporters, covering event emission and broadcast functionalities with and without the built-in balancer. They also modified code related to span creation and duration calculation within the tracing module.
moleculersoanode-jsframeworkmicroservice-framework
ngraef/moleculer
Nov 2018 - Oct 2021
:rocket: Progressive microservices framework for Node.js
Contributions:29 pushes, 9 branches, 7 tags in 2 years 11 months
node-jsframeworkprogressiverocketnodejs
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