Nicolas Trettel
Cloud Engineering Senior Advisor at Cigna
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Trettel is a Cloud Engineering Senior Advisor with nine years of hands-on experience building serverless, full-stack JavaScript applications using Node.js, React, and AWS. At Cigna he advises on cloud engineering and architecture, applying practical experience from prior roles at Rackspace where he modernized UIs, automated ticketing APIs, and reworked billing services for new pricing models. He combines infrastructure-as-code and observability practices—Terraform, CloudWatch, and DataDog—with event-driven patterns using Lambda, Kinesis, and DynamoDB to deliver reliable production systems. Early work includes embedded security research on Bluetooth Low Energy and shipping customer-facing React UIs from MVP to production, reflecting both low-level curiosity and product-oriented delivery. Based in Blacksburg and grounded in a CS degree from Virginia Tech, he’s comfortable moving between architecture, hands-on coding, and operational support to solve complex cloud-native problems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design that balances scalability, cost, and developer productivity.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Github Skills (49)
neopixel10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
aws10
javascript9
google-home9
linux9
google-assistant9
windows9
nodejs9
macos9
js9
deprecated9
html8
cli8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
njtrettel/spotify-collaborative-queue
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:106 commits, 6 PRs, 52 pushes in 1 month
njtrettel/METARMap
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Raspberry Pi project to visualize flight conditions on a map using WS8211 LEDs addressed via NeoPixel
Contributions:15 PRs, 39 pushes, 19 branches in 6 months
neopixelraspberry-pi
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