Nick Messick
Senior Software Engineer Architect - ASE Workflow Operations
California, United States
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SeniorNick Messick is a senior software engineer and architect with 14+ years of hands-on experience and over 18 years across development and systems administration, currently leading ASE Workflow Operations at Apple. He designs and ships resilient data platforms—most recently architecting AVRO-on-Cassandra entity storage serving ~500k entities/day and a Solr-indexed worklisting service adopted company-wide. Comfortable from bare-metal servers to front-end UI, he’s the go-to troubleshooter who thrives when thrown “in the weeds” and has repeatedly rescued projects during mergers, migrations, and production incidents. A pragmatic technologist, he pairs strong test-driven development and aggressive refactoring with a willingness to adopt, invent, or revive older tools when they’re the right fit. He also brings deep operational savvy—building reindexing tooling, custom Java clients, and End-to-End OpenAPI-first services—so integrations are production-ready from day one. Based in California, he blends startup agility with enterprise-scale delivery and an appetite for solving obscure Lucene/Solr and distributed systems edge cases.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
3,212reputation
288kreached
74answers
20questions
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
Github Skills (32)
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python9
ruby-on-rails9
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nagios8
metal8
aws8
rails8
digitalocean8
terraform8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
messick/memphis
Jul 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:35 commits in 6 months
messick/events_map
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
eventsmapopenstreetmap
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