Nikki Pinski
Principal Engineer at Safety
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarNik Pinski is a Principal Software Engineer based in Vancouver with nine years of experience, currently serving as a Principal Engineer on AWS Lambda (previously EventBridge). He specializes in event-driven back-end systems and developer tooling, contributing to widely used AWS open-source projects like aws-sam-cli app templates and the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains. His contributions include EventBridge integration templates for Java and Python — including EC2 instance change notification flows and Gradle/Maven refinements — as well as modular refactors to IDE connection settings and advanced resource selection. Known for pragmatic attention to edge cases, he has also fixed tricky schema preview bugs involving special characters and long filenames to improve developer workflows.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
kotlin10
ec10
aws-eventbridge10
event-hub10
java10
javas10
amazon-ec210
aws10
event-bus10
model-driven9
python9
ui-design9
modeling9
model-driven-development9
model-building9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sam-cli-app-templates
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 9 PRs, 7 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nikki primarily contributed to the AWS SAM CLI app templates, specifically focusing on EventBridge integration with Java and Python. They implemented and refined code related to EC2 instance change notifications. Their work included defining data models and adjusting templates, particularly for Gradle and Maven Java projects, while also making adjustments to the python templates.
aws/aws-toolkit-jetbrains
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
AWS Toolkit for JetBrains - a plugin for interacting with AWS from JetBrains IDEs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 6 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nikki contributed to the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains plugin, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes related to the connection settings and schema preview functionality. They refactored the AWS connection settings UI, making it modular. The user also improved the resource selector component with features like advanced rendering and sorting options. Further, the user addressed a bug in the schema previewer related to special characters and file name length.
aws-lambdajetbrains-idesjetbrainssamaws
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