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Colin Nicotina

@colinnicotina

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I build cloud-native APIs, containerized services, and automated delivery platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build reliable cloud-native services and delivery platforms, with ownership across APIs, infrastructure automation, observability, security, and cross-functional engineering collaboration.

I've built cloud-native healthcare services at MCNA Dental for member, provider, eligibility, and claims workflows. My work includes Python and TypeScript REST APIs, AWS serverless integrations, secure storage patterns, and observability that supports reliable HIPAA-aligned data exchange.

At Walmart, I built high-throughput commerce and operations APIs with JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, REST, GraphQL, and cloud SDKs. I led containerization, Kubernetes and OpenShift deployment improvements that reduced release rollback time by 40%, and improved incident detection by 35% through production observability.

Across MCNA Dental, Walmart, Invisalert Solutions, and New Era Technology, I've automated CI/CD and infrastructure workflows with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Docker, Helm, and GitOps practices.

I bring senior ownership through architecture and code reviews, mentoring, troubleshooting runbooks, security-minded cloud engineering, and close collaboration with product, infrastructure, SRE, operations, and security teams.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Software Engineer

Current

MCNA Dental

Aug 2024 - Present (2 years)

Designed cloud-native healthcare service components for member and provider workflows, building REST APIs with Python, TypeScript, Docker, and AWS SDK. Enhanced CI/CD automation and implemented observability for production services.

Python TypeScript Docker Kubernetes OpenShift Helm GitHub Actions Gitlab CI Azure DevOps Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Elasticsearch AWS CDK Lambda API Gateway IAM Secrets Manager S3 REST GraphQL

Senior Software Engineer

Walmart

Mar 2021 - Aug 2024 (3 years 5 months)

Built high-throughput retail platform APIs using JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, REST, GraphQL, and Node.js. Led containerization and deployment improvements, reducing release rollback time by 40%.

JavaScript TypeScript Python Go REST GraphQL Node Docker Kubernetes OpenShift Helm Gitlab CI GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Terraform AWS CDK IAM Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Elasticsearch Kafka PostgreSQL

Software Engineer

Invisalert Solutions, Inc.

Jul 2020 - Mar 2021 (8 months)

Developed alerting and monitoring application services using Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, REST APIs, Docker, and PostgreSQL. Created deployment automation and implemented logging and troubleshooting workflows.

Python JavaScript TypeScript REST Docker PostgreSQL GitHub Actions Gitlab CI Helm Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana Elasticsearch

Systems Engineer

New Era Technology

Jun 2016 - Jul 2020 (4 years 1 month)

Engineered enterprise infrastructure and cloud hosting environments for clients, supporting AWS and Azure services. Automated systems administration tasks using Python, PowerShell, and Terraform concepts.