Nico Vaidyanathan Hidalgo

Contacts

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Email
nico@visionary.software

Summary

My mission is to take the best academic theory and apply it to the practice, and bring the lessons from the practice to academic theory to move it forward. I am passionate about exploring the expanse of software engineering and the way it is shaping the 21st century. I have explored computer science in theoretical and industrial applications.

Experience

Organization Role From To Achievements
Visionary Software Solutions Founder Present
  • Lead development team of 5 engineers to build version 1 of https://portal.mybluepeak.com in AWS Amplify Gen 2 + NextJS + ReactJS + DynamoDB + Cognito + Java integrating with NetCracker's ICOMS/ICAPI. Improved customer account management experience and autopay enrollment.
  • Maintenance and evolution of https://vationventures.com
  • Development of Measurement FOSS libraries in Java (https://central.sonatype.com/search?q=software.visionary&namespace=software.visionary.measurement) and Dart (https://pub.dev/publishers/visionary.software/packages) for Visionary Software Solutions
  • Development of ReactJS service integrating Epic Systems EHS into Olamedi, enabling agentic triage health consults to integrate automatically with an EHR
  • Architectural evaluation, incident response process creation, and consulting for BearCover.de
  • Development of ASP.NET new client intake form for Landry Law Office PC, reducing average paperwork intake time from 1 hour to 15 minutes
Amazon Web Services LLC Software Development Engineer II
  • Analyzed, implemented, and released critical security update of internal AWS SDK dependencies to satisfy compliance requirements
  • Collaborated on design, implementation, testing, and release of re-architecture of IAM service to meet scaling needs for next 10 years
  • Mentored and design/code reviewed junior developers for lossless messaging multi-availability zone replication and IAM policy features
Amazon Incorporated Software Development Engineer
  • Developed top 10 Sellers aggregation and analysis plugin for Amazon Webstore, a Java/Perl/Python/Ruby based SOA eCommerce platform. Won Quality Czar award for raising the bar on code quality and design.
  • Implemented v1 of Customer Service Technology Slapshot — a Scatter/Gather message bus that brokered customer data across Ordering, customer service, Prime, and ML pipelines via metadata-driven call graphs. Powered the Prime Now NYC launch (1–3 day average → 1-hour delivery).
  • Devised and implemented weekly reading groups for software development engineers reading Clean Code, Working Effectively with Legacy Code, and Refactoring. Joined Code Samurai leadership and mentored 6 other software engineers in raising the bar on quality.
Arizona State University Physics Department Web Developer Sr.
  • Team Lead and primary engineer for http://physics.asu.edu and other internal projects
  • Coordinated team of designers and developers to build applications per discussion with office staff, including an HTML/CSS/JavaScript carousel for weekly colloquia. We increased attendance by 20% advertising events on monitors that were anteriorly only spread through word of mouth
  • Developed database driven application for graduate student profiles, including publications, in Drupal 6
  • Developed Drupal 6 website https://pirt.asu.edu for Physics Instructional Resource Team, which aided professors in experimental setup for classes. We reduced average demo submission and approval process time by 38%
  • Developed Drupal 6 website https://nanoscience.asu.edu in Drupal 6 for Professional Science Master's Degree program in Nanoscience, improving admission rates by 27%
Intel Corporation Graduate Technical Intern
  • Built an internal project-management / milestone-tracking tool from scratch in Grails 1.3.7 on PostgreSQL 8.4 / Tomcat 7 / Fedora 14; mentored a successor into ownership via pair programming.
Intel Corporation Graduate Technical Intern
  • Intern for IT Flex Services providing valuable software application development consulting to internal customers. Earned Grand Slam SOC Outcome for participating in Proof of Concept testing for internal cloud computing platform integration with Trusted Platform Module in Java. Ran and documented test scenarios and presented findings
  • Elicited requirements, implemented, and tested user stories for internal resource allocation tool using ASP.NET MVC, Sha#p Architecture, NHibernate (Fluent), jQuery in a Scrum development paradigm using TFS 2010
  • Presented at internal developer’s conference: Software Professionals Conference 2010. Won Best Presentation in conference simulcast to sites around the world.
Sun Microsystems Campus Ambassador
  • Evangelized Sun Products and technologies to students and professors, showing them possible productivity enhancements and creating collaborations with Sun engineers
  • Developed technical demos and presentations showcasing NetBeans, Glassfish, and Android
  • Planned OpenSolaris Installfest in conjunction with ASU Linux Users Group
WebShare LLC Intern
  • Developed intra-company web applications using HTML/Javascript, PHP, MySQL, XML/XSLT. Wrote blogs and developed best practices for Search Engine Marketing using Google Analytics
  • Wrote a link building tool using PHP to compare the linking relationships between two websites
  • Specified/Architected/Designed/Implemented/Tested/Released JavaScript module enabling cross-domain tracking with Google Analytics
  • Wrote documentation for customers to onboard with Google Analytics and use it effectively
Intel Corporation Graduate Technical Intern
  • Developed intra-company web applications using the ASP.NET and C#
  • Assist in the creation and dissemination of intra-site communications. Created and edited content for Ocotillo Communications, including Email Blasts, Message Centers, Bathroom Readers, Elevator Posters, and Plasma Displays
  • Built PCs for the implementation of InMotion communications system
  • Developed OC Epicenter –intranet web site for communications built using ASP.NET 2.0 Framework
  • Gathered requirements and designed automated workflow planning tool
Arizona Public Service Software Engineering Intern
  • Created and modified modules for the Energy Management System
  • Created modules in C, Pascal, and Python for use in real-time data processing
  • Integrated Python applications with an Oracle database and developed front-end Graphical User Interface using wxPython
  • Designed and created Oracle tables for backup database of development electrical power system to replace legacy system
  • Populated and manipulated database through use of SQLPlus and Oracle stored procedures
Arizona State University Computer Support Specialist
  • Provided excellent customer service and effectively diagnosed and troubleshooted technical problems
  • Created modules in C, Pascal, and Python for use in real-time data processing
  • Installed and setup operating systems including Windows 2000/ XP, and Mac OS 8.2/9/ OSX and installed various security applications on these systems
  • Assisted students and faculty in connecting to the ASU network, effectively configuring and troubleshooting wireless and Ethernet connections
  • Provided support over the phone and in person to customers, troubleshooting problems in a wide range of applications such as MS Office, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, Corel WordPerfect, and many more
Honeywell Aerospace Engineering Intern
  • Assisted engineers in the development of Auxiliary Power Units for airplane engines
  • Created an Excel spreadsheet with the history of service logs for APUs, migrating binders of papers to reduce waste and enable analytics
  • Transferred VHS footage of testing procedures on APUs to DVD, ensuring compliance requirements and improving durability
  • Created digital repository of service logs of APUs by converting hard documents to PDF

Education

Name From To Degree GPA
Arizona State University Doctorate Of Philosophy Area Of Study Computer Science 3.59/4.0
Arizona State University Bachelor Of Science In Engineering Major Computer Systems Engineering cum laude 3.6/4.0
Arizona State University Bachelor Of Science Major Computer Science Minor Business cum laude 3.6/4.0
Westwood High School High School Diploma Top 10% of graduating class of 751 Excellence in Service Learning Scholastic 3.4/4.0

Skills

Skill Level
English EXPERT
Spanish EXPERT
Portuguese INTERMEDIATE
German BEGINNER
French BEGINNER
Italian BEGINNER
Chinese (Mandarin) BEGINNER
Hindi BEGINNER
Japanese BEGINNER
Java EXPERT
Groovy ADVANCED
Python EXPERT
Ruby EXPERT
PHP INTERMEDIATE
JavaScript INTERMEDIATE
TypeScript BEGINNER
CoffeeScript EXPERT
HTML EXPERT
CSS ADVANCED
C ADVANCED
C++ INTERMEDIATE
C# INTERMEDIATE
XML/XSLT/XPath INTERMEDIATE
Visual Basic INTERMEDIATE
Dart ADVANCED
Kotlin BEGINNER
Rust BEGINNER
Amazon Web Services EXPERT
Android INTERMEDIATE
Google Cloud Platform ADVANCED
Flutter ADVANCED
Design Patterns EXPERT
Enterprise Integration Patterns EXPERT
Anti-Patterns EXPERT
Service Oriented Architectures EXPERT
Domain Driven Design EXPERT
Command Query Response Separation EXPERT
Event Driven Architectures EXPERT
Xtreme Programming ADVANCED
Kanban ADVANCED
Scrum ADVANCED
Java Enterprise Edition ADVANCED
Grails ADVANCED
Micronaut INTERMEDIATE
Spring ADVANCED
Guice ADVANCED
JAX-RS ADVANCED
Rails ADVANCED
Apache Thrift ADVANCED
Hibernate ADVANCED
MyBatis ADVANCED
Java Persistence Architecture ADVANCED
Git EXPERT
Subversion ADVANCED
DynamoDB EXPERT
Oracle ADVANCED
MySQL ADVANCED
PostgreSQL ADVANCED
JUnit EXPERT
Mockito EXPERT
EasyMock EXPERT
Spock Framework EXPERT
Selenium ADVANCED
Python Test ADVANCED
RSpec ADVANCED
Cucumber ADVANCED

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