Nick Ottrando
Senior Software Engineer at Cantina Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Ottrando is a senior software engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience designing and scaling backend systems for high-volume products. He specializes in Go-based API development, relational databases, and messaging systems, having built two-way in-app messaging and large warehouse/order systems used at Tesla and carrier/fulfillment platforms at EasyPost. At Tesla he progressed to staff-level responsibilities, leading project planning, mentoring engineers, and launching an internal messaging platform integrated with Firebase for company-wide communications. Currently at Cantina Labs he focuses on APIs and media processing pipelines using Go, gRPC, MongoDB, and Dynamo. He has a practical knack for tuning databases and async workflows—reducing response times, improving connection management, and building thread-safe async utilities—so systems remain resilient under heavy load. A CS graduate with a consistent track record of turning complex integrations into reliable, developer-friendly services, he favors pragmatic designs that scale.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at San Francisco State University
English
Github Skills (73)
neo4j9
go-api9
migration9
migration-tool9
sinatra9
player9
tracks9
json9
rails-api9
activemodel9
sdk8
checkout8
migrate8
aws-s38
logging8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NickOttrando/discogs-go
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Go Client Library for Discogs API
Contributions:2 releases, 47 commits, 4 PRs in 4 months
golangapiclient-librarygo-clientgo
NickOttrando/Photo-Picker
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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