Nils Persson
Back End Software Engineer at Pendo.io
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNils Persson is a Senior Back End Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across startups and large enterprises. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill where his research focused on designing a difficulty-resolution system to detect and assist programmers—an indicator of his interest in human-centered developer tooling. Professionally he’s shipped high-throughput messaging and cloud-native services using Java, Spring, Akka, Docker, AWS, Kafka, and event-driven architectures at companies including Pendo, Bandwidth, and Amazon. His internships at Fidelity and Aqueti exposed him to both large-team engineering practices and the versatility required at small, research-driven teams. Beyond code, he founded and ran a local tennis instruction business as a teen, demonstrating early leadership, customer focus, and operational management. He combines strong analytical rigor from research with pragmatic, shipping-oriented engineering to solve real-world backend challenges.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Swedish, German
Github Skills (11)
json3
testing3
reimplementation3
mongodb3
appengine2
golang2
cpp2
data-structures2
parquet1
dataframes1
datastore1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
npersson001/creature-keeper
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:24 pushes, 4 branches in 2 days
npersson001/Fitbit-Grapher
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch, 6 issues in 24 days
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