Nicholas LaJoie

Email: nic@lajoie.me

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nicholaslajoie

Bio: Born and raised on a potato farm in Northern Maine (hence, @SpudNiche), my upbringing fostered a love for tinkering and problem solving. Today, I'm an engineer that is passionate about life-long learning and building impactful software!

Skills

• Proficiency in: Python, Django, Postgres, AWS services, Terraform, Git/CLI tooling
• Actively exploring: Data engineering patterns, Marimo, DuckDB, LLM/AI tooling
• Misc: Comfortable with ambiguity and quick to identify technical solutions that meet business timelines without sacrificing quality and maintainability

Details

Listing a bunch of buzzwords feels a bit lacking, so I'll mention here that my work today centers around being a contributor to a team that deploys production-grade, HIPAA-compliant dockerized backend systems to the Aptible platform. As a small team, we also handle support and monitoring and quality control by using tools like Sumo Logic, Sentry, and Zephyr (within Jira, which is how we manage our projects). We prioritize user experience and safety above all else, so we use these tools (and our internally developed application update system) to roll out product improvements and security patches in ways that minimize user churn/impact as much as possible. Our small but mighty team is incredibly thoughtful - our high standards and care have led to a culture of excellence and quality that I am proud to be a part of!

Experience

Education

B.S. in Computer Engineering - University of Maine, 2018