Nick Plutt
Staff Software Engineer at SmarterDx
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Plutt is a Staff Software Engineer based in Minneapolis with 11 years of experience designing and delivering HIPAA-compliant health tech platforms and cloud-native infrastructure. He combines full-stack development (Python/NodeJS/React) with DevOps expertise, having architected secure AWS environments, driven SOC2 readiness, and reduced costs and latency through measurable platform improvements. Nick has led teams and scaled launches—cutting customer onboarding from hours to minutes—and played a key role in a $30M acquisition while improving disaster recovery and compliance posture. An active open-source contributor, he has improved AWS Chalice’s local server, API Gateway integration, and deployment behaviors, demonstrating attention to reliability and developer ergonomics. He pairs hands-on coding with pragmatic leadership, consistently turning complex clinical requirements into auditable, revenue-driving solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Software Engineering at Iowa State University
Github Skills (9)
aws-lambda10
serverless10
aws10
api-gateway10
python10
devops9
testing9
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aws/chalice
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Python Serverless Microframework for AWS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 24 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nick focused on enhancing the Chalice framework, primarily by implementing features and fixing bugs related to local server functionality, API gateway integration, and deployment configurations. They added functionality for API Gateway compression and connection timeouts and addressed an IAM role creation issue. They also made improvements to error handling and logging.
pythonmicroframeworkpyramidaws-lambdapython27
nplutt/aws
Feb 2017 - Jan 2019
Fully scripted aws portfolio projects
Contributions:14 PRs, 54 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 10 months
scriptedaws
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