Nicolai 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 University
High School Degree None, High School Degree None at Scarsdale High School
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
Contributions:37 PRs, 22 pushes, 41 branches in 1 year 1 month
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Nicolai Ferraris - Staff Software Development Engineer at LinkedIn