Nicholaus Lawson

Engineering

I am a computer engineer, I spend a great deal of time coding and on computers. I am constantly looking for a new project to try out and a reason to use the hotest new dev stack/tool/fancy button. I currently work for a national company, focusing on cloud architecture. I have spent a considerable amount of time working on highly performant, highly parallelized systems, and love the challange that comes with it.

I am also very passionate about system design/achitecture and best practices and standards. Books like Pragmatic Programmer, Software Craftsman, etc resonate with me very deeply. I want to ensure that I produce quality code, for a system that is as good as I can make it at the time, and I want to continually grow so that the next design I make or contribute on will be better than the last./p>

Writing

I enjoy writing and detailing my efforts and research around the work that I do, I have a blog (that I do not frequent as often as I should). In my current role, I spend a large amount of my time creating documentation for colleagues and conferences. Hopefully some of that work will bleed over and will eventually be found on my blog as well. I also spend some time working on whitepapers and my attempt at a book on developing apps on Ethereum.

Teaching and Mentoring

I am currently teaching as an adjunct professor at a local technical college. I have also particpated in a local code bootcamp that offers free training to qualified applicants to expose them to entire tech stacks to prepare them for junior level work in the develoment field. I have also presented multiple times at the local developer conference, Code PaLousa, and have more proposals to submit for future talks as well. There is a good chance that you could see me make a return there this year.