About

Nikki Thean is a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer at Etsy with over 12 years of relevant experience in the industry. She has a deep understanding of data issues and problems on different parts of Etsy's stack, and spends most of her time working on Apache Kafka and Hadoop pipelines using Scala and Java. Nikki is also a Kafka contributor and helps maintain some of Etsy's open source projects. In her current role as Staff Software Engineer at Etsy, Nikki is responsible for working on a wide variety of data issues and problems, including web applications that serve data to consumers, API integrations, and various devops-related odds and ends to maintain the clusters that serve Etsy's data. She is a key member of the team responsible for bringing data from Kafka to Hadoop to Vertica, and mostly codes in Scala and Java, but also uses PHP, Javascript, and Ruby. Prior to her current role, Nikki worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Etsy, where she was responsible for working on the pipeline that brings data from Kafka to Hadoop to Vertica. She has also worked as a Software Engineer at Etsy. Nikki holds an AB degree from Princeton University, where she studied from 2006 to 2010. Her education and experience have equipped her with a strong foundation in software engineering, Kafka, Javascript, PHP, Hadoop, Scala, Java, DevOps, and web development. Overall, Nikki Thean is a highly skilled and experienced Staff Software Engineer with a proven track record of success in the industry. She is a valuable asset to Etsy and the wider tech community, and is passionate about using her skills and expertise to solve complex data issues and problems.