Nicholas Thomson
Principal Software Engineer at Section
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Thomson is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building and modernizing scalable web platforms, currently leading architecture and delivery at Section. He has a strong track record of reducing customer defects and technical debt—at Firstup he drove a 60% reduction in outstanding issues while migrating legacy systems to modern frameworks. Comfortable across the full stack, Nicholas has designed robust RESTful APIs, reusable React components, and front-end architectures at scale for enterprise products with millions of users. He blends hands-on coding with people leadership, mentoring engineers, running effective code reviews, and coordinating cross-functional teams to ship secure, user-centric solutions. Based in Minneapolis, he brings pragmatic engineering discipline and an emphasis on maintainability that surfaces in both product quality and team performance.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Crooms Academy of Information Technology
Github Skills (15)
angular9
slack-bot8
disconnect7
agentic7
git-workflow7
claude6
angularjs6
world-of-warcraft5
slack4
builtwith2
replay1
frontend1
api1
parser1
react1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nthomson/nthomson.github.io
Oct 2012 - Aug 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes in 10 years
cloudspace/angular.crunchinator.com
Dec 2013 - Nov 2014
Cloudspace Crunchinator Angular Demo
Contributions:348 commits, 2 comments in 10 months
angular
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