Nicky Semenza

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States12 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Experienced in full-stack web development and backend systems.
Proficient in sports photography for major events.
Strong background in managing PKI lifecycle for internet properties.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fullstack Developer with expertise in SaaS and Media industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Go (programming Language)Distributed SystemsSports Photography

Other Skills

React.jsPostgreSQLPythonPHPJavaScriptMySQLLightroomPhotoshopJavaCSSSoftware EngineeringHTMLAfter EffectsAdobe Creative SuiteLaravel

About

I'm a full-stack web developer specializing in backends, and a freelance photographer

Experience

12 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Cloudflare

2 roles

Senior Systems Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Full Stack Engineer

Jul 2018 – Sep 2023 · 5 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

I work on the SSL/TLS team - we manage the PKI lifecycle for millions of internet properties. Scope includes internal CA issuance and renewal work for mTLS use cases as well as working with publicly trusted certificate authorities.

React.jsPostgreSQLGo (Programming Language)Distributed Systems

Smugmug

2 roles

Software Engineering Intern

May 2017 – Aug 2017 · 3 mos · Mountain View, California

Software Engineering Intern

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Full stack development - PHP, React, YUI

Big ten network

Sports Photographer

Aug 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Area · On-site

Photographer for Purdue football + basketball home games

Sports Photography

Purdue university - office of indiana state chemist

3 roles

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Aug 2015 – Dec 2015 · 4 mos · West Lafayette, Indiana

TA for CS190 course covering the basics of Unix, shells, and version control.

Theatrical Technician

Sep 2014 – Apr 2015 · 7 mos

Web Developer

Aug 2014 – May 2015 · 9 mos

Contributied to the development of a full-stack CMS for both internal agricultural testing form workflows and public record lookup

Parachute.co

Software Engineer

Oct 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos · remote work

I'm building the backend from the ground up, including creating an API to power mobile & web clients.
I'm also building the frontend website - http://parachute.co
Parachute is a last mile delivery layer within college campuses. We make it simple for students to get what they need, delivered directly to their dorm room; starting with laundry, snacks, and essentials.

The purdue exponent

Senior Photographer

Sep 2014 – Apr 2018 · 3 yrs 7 mos · West Lafayette, Indiana, United States · On-site

Photographing sports games, performances, and other campus events
Portfolio available at http://nicky.photos

The harker school

Filmmaker and Photographer

Jun 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Jose, California

Filmed and Photographed a variety of on-campus events as well as assembling promotional media

Endorse.com

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2012 – Feb 2013 · 8 mos · San Mateo, California

Developed and employed testing plans for iOS and Android testing/ debugging across a variety of physical devices
Wrote Python-based scrapers to extract UPC codes from retailer websites to build up a custom reverse-lookup system
Contributed various changes and features to the codebase for OCR
pipeline, including optimization of logo detection