Nico K
Marietta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolNico K is a seasoned Java backend engineer with 11 years of professional experience delivering end-to-end software solutions from requirements and prototyping through implementation, testing, and maintenance. Based in Marietta, Georgia, he has a long track record of senior engineering roles across consulting and enterprise environments including McKesson, Quintiles, Backbase, and S.P. Richards, often embedded in high-stakes client projects. His background spans legacy systems (COBOL) to modern Java/J2EE architectures, giving him a pragmatic understanding of system evolution and integration challenges. Known for taking ownership across the full development life cycle, he combines steady hands-on coding with technical leadership and mentoring on distributed teams. An alumnus of the University of the Free State with a dual grounding in computer science and physics, he brings analytical rigor to complex engineering problems. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous requirements into robust, maintainable backend systems that keep business-critical services running.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B. SC, Computer Science, Physics, B. SC, Computer Science, Physics at University of the Free StateHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Port Natal
English, Afrikaans, flemish, Dutch
Github Skills (24)
jekyll9
jekyll-theme8
electricity8
climate-change7
sustainability7
electricity-prices6
parser6
jsp-servlet6
jndi5
jsp4
rest-services4
data-platform4
data-visualization4
spring-web4
oauth4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NicorDesigns/javawebdevcourse
Jan 2022 - Apr 2023
An Introduction to Enterprise Java Web Development
Contributions:6 PRs, 135 pushes, 39 branches in 1 year 3 months
javaweb-developmentjee8jspjsp-servlet
NicorDesigns/SpringJDBC
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:148 pushes, 28 branches in 6 months
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