Nicole Trulos

I’m a highly skilled, performance-driven Senior Software Engineer with over 8 years of professional experience designing, architecting, and scaling enterprise-level SaaS applications. I focus on backend engineering with C# and modern .NET/ASP.NET, building robust data layers and APIs that teams can trust at scale.

In my current role, I architect and optimize high-throughput APIs, background workers, and distributed microservices for a multi-tenant cybersecurity SaaS platform. I’ve designed and maintained an Apache Kafka event-streaming pipeline handling over 10 million daily events, using robust schemas, dead-letter queues, and idempotent processing to ensure event delivery and fault isolation.

I also drive meaningful performance and reliability improvements across the stack. I migrated legacy data models to optimized SQL Server schemas—tuning complex T-SQL queries and index structures to improve query performance by 40%—while ensuring transactional reliability and operational maturity through end-to-end SDLC ownership.

As a technical leader, I mentor 6 junior and mid-level engineers, lead comprehensive design and code reviews, and help set coding standards to reduce technical debt. I’ve built scalable containerized workloads with Docker and orchestrated deployments on AWS using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and AWS Lambda, and I own post-deployment observability using distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry/Datadog) to keep production resilient.