Nikki Pinski
Principal Engineer at Safety
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolNikki Pinski is a Principal Engineer with over a decade of experience building cloud-native, event-driven systems and developer tooling, most recently shaping AWS Lambda and EventBridge. Based in Vancouver, she combines deep backend engineering with product-focused refinements—improving IDE integrations like the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains and contributing EventBridge templates for SAM CLI to streamline Java and Python developer workflows. Her career spans large-scale e-commerce and cloud platforms at Amazon and startups, where she’s led cross-functional teams and owned end-to-end features from data models to UI refactors. Known for pragmatic refactors and fixing tricky edge cases (for example schema preview bugs and complex connection UI modularization), she pairs systems thinking with an eye for developer experience. Currently at Safety, she’s applying cloud platform expertise to broader startup problems, bringing both operational rigor and hands-on delivery.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Russian
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Github Skills (27)
ec10
kotlin10
aws-eventbridge10
eventhub10
java10
javas10
eventbus10
amazon-ec210
aws10
model-driven9
python9
ui-design9
modeling9
model-driven-development9
model-building9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sam-cli-app-templates
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 9 PRs, 7 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nikki primarily contributed to the AWS SAM CLI app templates, specifically focusing on EventBridge integration with Java and Python. They implemented and refined code related to EC2 instance change notifications. Their work included defining data models and adjusting templates, particularly for Gradle and Maven Java projects, while also making adjustments to the python templates.
aws/aws-toolkit-jetbrains
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
AWS Toolkit for JetBrains - a plugin for interacting with AWS from JetBrains IDEs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 6 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nikki contributed to the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains plugin, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes related to the connection settings and schema preview functionality. They refactored the AWS connection settings UI, making it modular. The user also improved the resource selector component with features like advanced rendering and sorting options. Further, the user addressed a bug in the schema previewer related to special characters and file name length.
awsjetbrainsjetbrains-idesaws-lambdasam
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