Nik Petersen
Northern Idaho, USA, United States
Summary
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SeniorNikolaus Petersen is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications across startups and established companies, currently at Amazon. He combines practical engineering leadership with entrepreneurial grit from running his own consulting firm and serving as CTO/VP of Engineering in early ventures. Technically versatile, Nikolaus has worked across EmberJS, Ruby on Rails, C#, infrastructure automation tools like Terraform/Packer/Chef, and contributed UI and backend improvements to the open-source Rock church management system. Known for clean, robust solutions and pragmatic problem solving, he also manages a mini hobby farm in North Idaho and balances family life with continued community involvement. Notably, he brings both product-facing feature delivery and low-level refactoring experience, making him comfortable shipping features and improving longstanding codebases.
16 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
csharp10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
asp-net-core9
asp-net9
html7
ember-simple-auth6
audit-logging6
mongodb6
nosql6
rubygems6
ruby6
mongoid6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SparkDevNetwork/Rock
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
An open source CMS, Relationship Management System (RMS) and Church Management System (ChMS) all rolled into one.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 10 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nik primarily focused on modifying and refactoring existing C# code related to UI controls within the Rock CMS. Their contributions included replacing hardcoded IDs with dynamic ClientIDs and implementing new settings for the PersonDetail bio block to display the middle name. Additionally, the user made changes to a connection request detail block, sorting a dropdown list. This work indicates involvement in enhancing the UI components and functionality of the Rock CMS system.
cmsc-sharpchmsrock-rms
demersus/dotfiles
Jan 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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