Nick Vaughn is a Full Stack Developer and Senior Applied AI Engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable, high-scale systems across cloud, embedded, and robotics domains. Based in Seattle, he led critical AWS recovery and operational improvements—coordinating a $113M outage recovery, teaching TypeScript IaC practices to 2,000+ engineers, and migrating a 10M TPS security service to serverless REST APIs. His background spans low-level C++ and FPGA design for industrial robotics to cloud-native Go/TypeScript services, giving him a rare full-stack perspective from silicon to distributed APIs. He’s comfortable on-call and in cross-functional leadership, having supervised 24/7 support and driven testing and coverage improvements that materially boosted system resilience. Notably, his academic research on UAV bathymetry and emotion classification shows a long-standing knack for melding machine learning with practical sensing and automation.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at University of the Pacific
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