Nick Zaccardi
Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Zaccardi is a builder and strategist with 13+ years delivering pragmatic, secure web and infrastructure systems across startups and enterprises. As a founder and former CTO/Senior Staff Engineer, he blends hands-on Python and JavaScript development with cloud-native operations using AWS, Terraform, Postgres, Docker, and Linux. He’s guided teams from early product/architecture through production maturity and has a habit of improving reliability at the framework level—contributing bug fixes, JSON handling, and deployment docs to the well-known Falcon Python web framework. Based in Grand Forks, ND, he pairs technical leadership with company-building experience at SpringBlock, Dispel, and Thread. Comfortable toggling between IC and executive roles, he focuses on shipping clear, maintainable systems that scale.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Air Traffic Controller, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Air Traffic Controller at University of North Dakota
Github Skills (14)
json10
api10
pytest10
wsgi10
rest10
python10
uwsgi9
nginx8
documentation8
webpages7
asgi7
http7
microservices-application7
microservices7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
falconry/falcon
Dec 2018 - May 2019
The no-magic web API and microservices framework for Python developers, with an emphasis on reliability and performance at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 18 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the Falcon framework, focusing on improving Python 2 compatibility and implementing custom JSON handling. Their work involved modifying core framework components, including the testing and media handling modules. Furthermore, they were involved in the creation of documentation, specifically a deployment guide for Nginx and uWSGI.
pythonmagicdata-planemicroservicecorrectness
level12/keg-bouncer
Dec 2015 - Mar 2019
A one-stop shop for authorization and authentication in Keg apps
Contributions:1 release, 11 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 years 4 months
authorizationstopauthenticationshopkeg
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