Nick Rakochy
Software Engineer at Anduril Industries
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolNick Rakochy is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building systems at Anduril Industries and earlier contributing across startups and consultancies. He works full-stack with a focus on JavaScript (React, Angular, Node), Clojure/Clojurescript, and has begun exploring Go, pairing frontend fluency with backend auth and middleware work. An active open-source contributor, he added JWE-based authentication and GraphiQL integration to the popular Luminus template, demonstrating practical security and developer-experience improvements. Before software, he coordinated large-scale local food programs and training across multiple US cities, bringing rare program-development and stakeholder management experience into engineering teams. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic developer who values testable, maintainable code and clear collaboration. He’s based in Minneapolis and open to connecting about impactful engineering and cross-disciplinary projects.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Theology/Theological Studies, Master's Degree, Theology/Theological Studies at Wheaton CollegeBachelor's Degree, Theology/Theological Studies, Bachelor's Degree, Theology/Theological Studies at Moody Bible Institute
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Github Skills (16)
clojure10
web-framework10
user-authentication10
encrypt10
authentication10
clojure-cli10
jwe10
docker6
nodejs6
docker-compose6
javascript6
amazon-ec26
postgresql6
pm26
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
luminus-framework/luminus-template
Aug 2016 - Nov 2017
a template project for the Luminus framework
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on adding and updating authentication features within the Luminus framework. They implemented a JWE (JSON Web Encryption) based authentication option, including necessary dependencies and middleware logic. The user refactored and updated dependencies related to authentication, including incorporating Buddy and Clj-time libraries, and integrating a graphiql interface. These changes involved modifications to core project files, including the project definition, route configuration, and template files.
webframeworktemplateclojureluminus
nrakochy/nrakochy.github.io
Apr 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:112 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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