Nicolai Ferraris
Staff Software Development Engineer at LinkedIn
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNicolai Ferraris is a Staff Software Development Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building large-scale systems across robotics, satellite control, and cloud services. He has progressed through multiple senior engineering roles at Amazon—spanning Project Kuiper, Satellite Control Systems, Mission Planning, and Amazon AGI—and now shapes platform-level work at LinkedIn. A strong full-stack systems engineer, he combines production-grade backend expertise (Go, C++, distributed systems) with applied ML and computer vision from his Amazon Robotics work. Nicolai also has a long record of teaching and mentoring—serving as a TA for courses like Parallel and Distributed Systems and leading data-structures instruction for large cohorts—bringing a practiced ability to translate complex concepts for teams. He seeks impact-focused projects and has a pattern of building reusable tooling and pipelines that reduce cost and operational friction. Based in New York, he pairs academic depth from NYU with startup and enterprise experience, and is known for a disciplined work ethic and practical engineering leadership.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at New York UniversityHigh School Degree None, High School Degree None at Scarsdale High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
French, English
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Github Skills (92)
shell10
cli10
zsh10
oh-my-zsh9
screwdriver9
code-generator9
api9
python9
code-generation9
cli-app9
docker9
aws9
php9
continuous-integration9
rails9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nicolaifsf/go-speak
Mar 2016 - Nov 2017
Speech to Text for Golang. Capable of continuous speech. Also wrappers for various Speech to Text APIs
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 1 year 9 months
golangspeechspeech-to-text
screwdriver-cd/client
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Screwdriver CLI
Contributions:9 commits, 18 PRs, 68 pushes in 23 days
cli
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