Nick Theile
Lead Software Engineer at The Dow Chemical Company
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNick Theile is a Lead Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native systems focused on sustainability and the circular economy. He designs and ships multi-party, distributed-ledger solutions—combining React, GraphQL, Node.js, Kubernetes, Hyperledger and even Bitcoin—most notably piloting an Uber-like recycling network for informal collectors in Nairobi. At Dow he blends hands-on engineering with product leadership across web, mobile and DevOps disciplines, from offline-first mobile surveys to large-scale private ERP automation. An active backend contributor to bitcoin banking infrastructure (GaloyMoney/blink), he’s comfortable implementing critical swap and gRPC plumbing as well as architectural refactors. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex compliance and audit requirements into pragmatic, auditable systems that run in production at scale.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology at Central Michigan University
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Github Skills (14)
cryptocurrency10
bitcoin10
go10
bitcoins10
back-end-development10
lightning-network10
grpc10
microservices-application9
microservices9
architecture8
architectures8
deferred-execution6
jquery6
deferred-loading6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
GaloyMoney/blink
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
bitcoin banking infrastructure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:191 reviews, 134 commits, 77 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on implementing and refactoring the loopout automation within the bitcoin banking infrastructure. They added, modified and refactored code related to swap services, including the introduction of interfaces, architectural patterns, and the configuration of swap-related cron jobs and tracing. The user was also involved in setting up and configuring the gRPC protocol definitions and other service components. The contributions suggest a focus on building and maintaining core features of the banking infrastructure.
paymentsinfrastructurebankingcryptocurrencycommunity-banking
ntheile/SpaStack.NET
Nov 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:63 commits in 4 months
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