Nicolas Polhamus
Software Engineer at Ancestry
Eagle Mountain, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Polhamus is a software engineer with a decade of experience building backend and full-stack solutions, currently contributing to Ancestry's platform from his base in Eagle Mountain, Utah. He works primarily in .NET and React and has a strong track record of modernizing legacy systems—bringing projects forward with Angular, Node.js, and Express during his time at Visa. His background spans government and healthcare contracting (ICF, SemanticBits) as well as fintech and enterprise web development, showing adaptability across domains and architectures. Nicolas combines hands-on coding with mentoring and support experience dating back to his university assistant role, which informs his collaborative approach to team delivery. Comfortable working across the stack, he favors pragmatic modernization that reduces technical debt while enabling new features. Outside of work he’s a Rockies-based developer who values practical, incremental improvements over flashy rewrites.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 2.8, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 2.8 at Columbus State University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (76)
editor8
iconic8
css8
visual-studio-code8
microsoft8
woff8
google-fonts8
svg-font8
font-awesome8
typescript8
live-preview8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
fonts8
electron8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nicpolhamus/rogue-map-gen
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 3 days
BagelTheKid/map-gen-v2
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:148 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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