Nik Kantar
Senior Software Engineer at Reach Security
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolNik Kantar is a Senior Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with 13 years of experience building and operating Python-first, cloud-native systems on AWS. He has repeatedly owned end-to-end features and platform rewrites—from Django monoliths to TypeScript/NodeJS serverless architectures—while leading squads and championing testing, observability, and developer tooling. Comfortable in both framework-less and framework-driven codebases, he pairs hands-on development (Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, RDS, SQS, EventBridge) with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation). Former chair of the regional PyBeach conference, he contributes to the local Python community and brings a designer’s sensibility from a BA in Graphic Design to pragmatic API and UX-aware backend work. Notably, he’s delivered solo rewrites and internal engineering tools that shifted team workflows and deployment practices across multiple companies.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Design, Visual Communication at California State University-Los AngelesUniversity of California San Diego
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Github Skills (200)
libgit210
parser10
python10
testing10
autocomplete10
ascii10
pip10
serverless10
hook10
ncurses10
python-development10
slugify10
formatter10
pyramid10
aws-apigateway10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
nkantar/talks
Oct 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches, 1 issue in 5 years 3 months
nkantar/pep20.org
Apr 2017 - Nov 2022
PEP 20 ~ The Zen of Python
Contributions:8 releases, 32 commits, 1 PR in 5 years 8 months
pythonpepzenpython-3python3
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