Wayne Nilsen
Chief Technology Officer at StormCall
Amherst, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWayne Nilsen is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with 13 years of experience building production-grade blockchain, fintech, and full-stack systems. He combines hands-on engineering—ranging from architecting a Substrate blockchain and custodial exchange infrastructure to leading NFT minting, royalty, and lifecycle systems—with strategic leadership roles including Head of Blockchain Engineering and Principal Architect. Comfortable across TypeScript, AWS-hosted platforms, and backend Rust tooling, he has contributed to notable open-source projects like cargo-edit, improving dependency management and upgrade semantics. His background in quantitative engineering and mathematical finance informs a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to product and platform design. Based in Amherst, NH, Wayne’s work blends deep technical craftsmanship with product-minded thinking, including applying NFC-enabled platforms to physical product authenticity and marketing.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Mathematical Finance, Master of Science (MS) Mathematical Finance at Questrom School of Business, Boston UniversityBS Mathematics and Computer Science, BS Mathematics and Computer Science at Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg
Github Skills (5)
rust10
cargo10
cli10
testing9
sem8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
killercup/cargo-edit
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
A utility for managing cargo dependencies from the command line.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 12 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:Wayne contributed to the `cargo-edit` project by implementing features for managing cargo dependencies from the command line. They added functionality for upgrading dependencies using different semantic versioning methods. Additionally, the user wrote tests to ensure the correct functionality of the upgrade feature, including testing different upgrade strategies. The user also refactored existing code, improving readability and maintainability by using more concise syntax.
cratedependenciesrustcargocommand-line
waynenilsen/handlebars-markdown-helper
Nov 2015 - Jun 2017
a helper for rust handlebars that provides a markdown parser
Contributions:29 commits, 10 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 7 months
rustmarkdown-parserhandlebarsparsermarkdown
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