Nick Stevens
Owner at Tortico Technologies LLC
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Stevens is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building embedded systems, test and control software, and cloud-backend services, now running his own firm, Tortico Technologies. A long tenure as Senior Staff Software Engineer at SmartThings and prior leadership roles highlight his strength in systems integration, firmware-to-cloud architecture, and delivering reliable production software. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Rust and backend HTTP tooling—demonstrated by substantial refactors to the rust-s3 library, improving testability, error handling, and modernizing its HTTP stack. Comfortable moving between low-level hardware test systems and high-level cloud APIs, he pairs practical engineering with project ownership and product-focused thinking. Based in Minneapolis, he holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Rose-Hulman and has a track record of turning complex technical constraints into maintainable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Github Skills (10)
aws-s310
error-handling10
rust10
reqwest10
testability10
signing9
async9
back-end-development9
cryptography8
api-design7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
durch/rust-s3
Dec 2016 - Sep 2018
Rust library for interfacing with S3 API compatible services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `rust-s3` library. Key contributions include rewriting the library for enhanced testability, error handling, and separation of concerns, which involved significant changes to internal workings and the public API. They also addressed bugs related to signed requests and added support for new AWS regions. Furthermore, the user converted the codebase to use the `reqwest` library for HTTP requests, replacing the previous `curl`-based implementation.
rusts3rust-s3rust-libraryaws-s3
nastevens/cookiecutter-rust-bin
Aug 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 13 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 8 months
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