Nicholas Homme

About

Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Designed and maintained production Python backend services with Flask, PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy, Redis caching, and Celery background jobs
• Implemented API reliability patterns: JWT + RBAC auth, explicit HTTP timeouts, retries with exponential backoff, and circuit breakers
• Delivered serverless AWS architectures (Lambda + API Gateway + DynamoDB/S3/SNS) with CloudFormation IaC and GitHub Actions CI/CD
• Built AWS Glue ETL pipelines (S3/RDS sources) using PySpark, DynamicFrames for schema evolution, and data quality validation with CloudWatch/SNS alerting
• Modernized a monolithic CRM into domain-based REST services with parity validation via parallel runs, stakeholder demos/UAT, and feature toggles
• Improved a large-scale SQL reporting query from ~10 minutes to ~30 seconds (~95% reduction) using indexing, date partitioning, join changes, and window functions
• Owned and remediated a batch/data pipeline incident by diagnosing API timeouts via CloudWatch metrics/logs, mitigating via manual retries/timeouts, and preventing recurrence with better monitoring and retry/circuit-breaker controls