Summary
Nick Pape is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building developer tooling, cloud services, and integrations at scale, currently at Microsoft in Austin. His career spans multiple stints at Microsoft plus roles at Amazon, Qualcomm, and AffiniPay, where he has contributed to mono-repo tooling, CI/CD reliability, and serverless Node.js integrations. He co-invented Rush.JS and has a track record of reducing developer friction through automation, package deduplication, and internal service design. Nick pairs strong systems and full-stack skills (C#, TypeScript, Node.js, React) with applied research, holding an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from UT Austin. He has also taught and modernized Reinforcement Learning coursework, bringing practical RL and ML perspectives to engineering problems. Known for translating customer needs into production solutions, he has helped file patents and deliver end-to-end implementations for high-value partners.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Artificial Intelligence, 3.92, Master of Science, Artificial Intelligence, 3.92 at The University of Texas at Austin