Nick Sawyer
Staff Software Engineer at Etsy
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolNick Sawyer is a Staff Software Engineer in Portland with 14 years of experience designing and operating backend systems that prioritize stability and scale. At Etsy he leads the architecture and delivery of a streaming ML platform that directly improves recommendations and search, building on prior roles creating data services and recommendation systems at CBS Interactive and Premise. He excels at turning large, complex data pipelines into performant, maintainable platforms and often owns both the infrastructure and product-facing impacts of his work. Known for practical system-level thinking, he blends deep backend engineering with hands-on leadership across cross-functional teams.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering & Computer Science, Computer Engineering & Computer Science at University of Louisville
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Github Skills (45)
google-cloud10
google-cloud-platform9
terraform9
gcp9
golang9
go9
searching8
terraform-provider8
mysql7
check-in7
monitoring7
aws-cloudformation7
postico7
elasticsearch6
data-visualization6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nickmoorman/dotfiles
Nov 2015 - Jul 2025
Obligatory dotfiles repo to help me keep all my machines in check
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 10 months
keepvimmachineslinuxcheck-in
nickmoorman/magic-modules
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Automatically generate Google Cloud Platform support for OSS IaaC Projects
Contributions:9 pushes, 5 branches in 15 days
gcpappengineossgooglegoogle-cloud-platform
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