Nicholas Wuensch
@nicholaswuensch
Senior software engineer specializing in scalable distributed systems, reliability, and full‑stack platform architecture.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I am a senior software engineer with deep experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed platform services across consumer, healthcare, and crypto domains. I have built real-time event-driven systems, authentication and identity platforms, and high-throughput data pipelines using Python, Java, Kafka, GraphQL, and modern frontend frameworks.
I focus on reliability engineering, observability, and scalable architecture—driving capacity improvements, reducing MTTR and incidents, and delivering secure integrations and developer-friendly APIs. I mentor engineers and lead cross-functional efforts to deliver performant, compliant, production-grade systems.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Staff Software Engineer
Meta
Jul 2024 - Present (1 year 11 months)
Architected full-stack platform services for Meta Horizon enabling persistent 3D social experiences, engineered event-driven systems processing 50M+ events/day with sub-100ms latency, and increased VR concurrent capacity by 40% via Kubernetes and multi-region deployments.
Staff Software Engineer
CoinTracker
Dec 2022 - May 2024 (1 year 5 months)
Led end-to-end development of a cryptotax and portfolio platform processing 5M+ daily transactions, built backend services and dashboards, and improved reliability to 99.95% while reducing incidents by 70%.
Staff Software Engineer
Flatiron Health
Aug 2021 - May 2022 (9 months)
Architected and scaled backend services and high-throughput data pipelines for oncology real-world evidence on GCP, improving observability and reducing critical incident duration by ~50%.
Developed and scaled globally distributed ad-serving platforms handling millions QPS using Java, C++, gRPC, Spanner and Bigtable, contributing to multi-billion-dollar ad revenue and reducing Sev-1 incidents by 50% year-over-year.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Lehigh University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2009 - 2013
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework in algorithms, systems, and software engineering, preparing for work on large-scale distributed platforms.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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Location
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