# Nicholas DiPreta

> Software Engineer at American Express

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nicholasdipreta

I am a software engineer experienced with Golang, Java, Python, Node, Microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes. I really enjoy devops work!

In my spare time I like reading fantasy novels, playing board games, and watching anime.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ American Express
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States
• Led projects that contributed to 3 week reduction in production deployment time for new applications.
• Developed new CI/CD patterns to enable GitHub Actions and Terraform at Enterprise level.
• Enabled new cloud services by providing proof of concepts at Amex based on partnering teams needs.
• Authored Architectural Decision Records defining methodologies to measure Cloud Platform at Amex.
• Developed command line tooling to allow Amex developers to easily provision and deploy to the cloud.
• Authored technical documentation enabling migration of infrastructure state management to IaC.
• Presented Amex’s Cloud Command Line Interface at Amex DevCon (2024).

### Software Engineer @ Altro
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
• 3rd Engineer - joined team at 0 users and left at 100k+
• Built and maintained core event driven microservices facilitating financial transactions review and ledgering, bank integrations, loan underwriting, fraud prevention and kyc, alternative data credit reporting, and traditional credit reporting, using Go, GraphQL, Python, AWS, Docker, Terraform.
• Developed and integrated new features and APIs to serve new customer types and modes of financial transactions.
• Implemented automated testing using Test Driven Development
• Collaborated on a team that grew from 3 to 15 engineers. Led onboarding for 6+ engineers.
• Worked closely with PMs and Operations team members to lead internal tooling product used to scale from 0 to 100k+ users.

### Growth @ Voro
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States
• Developed and implemented strategic growth and retention initiatives that increased total users from 8,000 to 75,000 in fifteen months, despite the absence of paid acquisition 
• Extracted and analyzed data to identify key metrics and transform raw data into actionable information 
• Led and prepared materials for weekly meetings for marketing, retention, and growth.
• Automated user acquisition funnel. 10X in  funnel capacity.
•  Designed process for acquiring and connecting with new user leads through testing and rapid iteration. Using various social media automation software, created a sustainable and  scalable outreach plan.


## Education
### Cornell University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicholas-dipreta

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Last updated: 2026-03-23