Nicklaus Connor is an engineering manager and former full-stack developer with eight years of experience building and scaling contract automation and backend systems from Charlotte, NC. He led LLM integration efforts that transformed Ontra’s automation coverage from near-zero to 97% full automation, achieving a 35x improvement in execution time while processing over 2M documents. Comfortable toggling between hands-on coding, system design, and people management, he has driven SDLC and async, documentation-first workflows at high-growth companies like Republic and Ontra. His background in mechanical engineering and early quality roles at General Motors gives him a disciplined, data-driven approach to reliability and release readiness that few software leaders explicitly carry. A serial tinkerer by nature, he combines curiosity about ML/LLM tooling with practical delivery focus to turn prototypes into production-grade features.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Certification Java - Full-Stack Development, Certification Java - Full-Stack Development at Tech Elevator
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering at The Ohio State University
This Repo updates The System tech stack to utilize Vue, Rails, and Postgres
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