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Nicholas Vollmar
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Location: Brooklyn, New York, United StatesApprox. Years of Experience: 11
Nicholas Vollmar's Current Workplace
GovWell
Company Size
11-50
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We the people (and the taxpayers) deserve effective government. But the software powering government services is 20 years behind the private sector. GovWell’s mission is to build modern software products to help government serve communities better. After launching in 2023, we now partner with government agencies in 12 states serving 400,000+ residents. GovWell has raised $5.5 million in venture funding from Work-Bench and Bienville Capital.
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Experience
Founding Software Engineer
GovWell · Full-time
Sep 2024 - Present
10 mos
Software Engineer
Esper · Full-time
Mar 2020 - Aug 2024
4 yrs 6 mos
Responsibilities: - Full-stack software engineering: Write code in any of the frontend or backend codebases as needed. - Infrastructure: Deploy the services, microservices, and supporting components using architectural best practices. Keep the site healthy by maintaining the monitoring pipeline and applying regular updates and security patches. - DevOps: Help other developers succeed by curating and troubleshooting a local development environment. Automate deployment and release processes wherever possible. Accomplishments: - Architected the deployment for our new, public-facing 'Secretary of State' product. Facilitated product launch by assisting with frontend and backend code, as well as provisioning the infrastructure. - Provisioned Kubernetes clusters, and migrated the company's applications and scheduled jobs - Streamlined the local development experience with Tilt - Authored internal tools (scripts distributed in a Homebrew tap, Gradle plugin) to increase developer productivity Skills: Agile Methodologies · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Debugging · Cloud Computing · TypeScript · Java · System Architecture · DevOps
Systems Engineer
Cloudflare, Inc. · Full-time
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
1 yr 6 mos
Member of the Argo Tunnel team (known today as Cloudflare Tunnel), enabling customers to securely connect their servers to the Cloudflare edge network. Responsibilities: - Maintained a daemon process that runs on each of Cloudflare's edge nodes, as well as a highly-available control plane. Collaborated with other engineering teams to ensure smooth interaction with other services in the Cloudflare ecosystem. - Maintained the client application deployed on customer servers. As needed, troubleshooted issues with connectivity and memory consumption. Accomplishments: - Integrated various services into a local developer experience via Tilt - Modified the edge nodes' codebase (which was, at the time, in Lua) to enable the named tunnels initiative - Provisioned automated acceptance tests of the client application on Windows and Linux servers
RetailMeNot, Inc.
Aug 2014 - Sep 2018
Senior Software Engineer
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
9 mos
Responsibilities: - Designed and maintained endpoints for the mobile app API - Ingested content from diverse data sources; transformed and analyzed it via ETL jobs; published content to external consumers - Maintained monitoring and alerting systems, and provided maintenance on-call Achievements: - Migrated the API from a static set of EC2 instances to a highly-available service with autoscaling baked in - Released a new geofence admin tool to facilitate high-quality location-specific content
Software Engineer II
Jan 2015 - Dec 2017
3 yrs
Software Engineer I
Aug 2014 - Dec 2014
5 mos
Rice University
Sep 2010 - Dec 2013
Teaching Assistant (COMP 140)
Aug 2011 - Dec 2013
2 yrs 5 mos
Taught students in person: guided in-class lab work in a "flipped classroom" setup, as well as running office hours. Prepared homework assignments by curating Facebook and Google Maps datasets for student use. Graded homework and exams.
Fondren Library - Circulation Desk
Sep 2010 - Dec 2012
2 yrs 4 mos
Interacted helpfully with patrons. Assisted Librarians and other Library staff. Checked library materials in and out (books, CDs, study room keys). Watched the front door and signed in visitors.
Education
  • 2010 - 2014
    Rice UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Computer Science