# Nicholas McDonald

> Principal Software Engineer at Veeva Systems

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nicholasmcdonald

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer - Clinical AI @ Veeva Systems
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
- Work with AI Data Engineers and Technical Product Managers to develop AI agents for Clinical Data applications

### CDMS Security Point of Contact @ Veeva Systems
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
- Coordinated deployment of dependency-scanning and static code analysis tools in CI/CD pipelines to flag vulnerable code and dependencies during development.
- Supervise annual external penetration tests with third-party vendors and in-house security teams.
- Enforce customers’ security SLAs between individual product teams with respect to specific security fixes.
- Triage findings in product code & dependencies, and plan implementation of necessary code-fixes & dependency upgrades.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Veeva Systems
Jan 2022 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Collaborate with PMs and team leads to coordinate new feature development and implementation, sometimes with conflicting stakeholder requirements.
- Analyze production environments, including logs and data, in order to triage issues, effectively communicate root-cause analyses and workarounds, and implement stable solutions swiftly.

### Software Engineer @ Veeva Systems
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Pleasanton, California, United States

### Associate Software Engineer @ Veeva Systems
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Pleasanton, California, United States
Development of new features + bug fixes on Veeva EDC web app & eSource iOS app

### iOS Product Development Intern @ ResMed
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Diego, California
- Developed new features, fix bugs, and maintain ResMed's myAir for Air 10 iOS application in an Agile environment.
- Enhanced testing environment and reporting by adding XCTests, XCUITests, and Gherkin acceptance tests in order to improve code and UI coverage, as well as ensure compliance with acceptance criteria.
- Improved deployment and compilation techniques of iOS mobile patient respiratory care solutions.

### IT Technician Intern @ Telehealthdocs
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Developed in-house Android apps with native C code using JNI & Android NDK at one of California's largest Telemedicine providers. 
- On-site deployment and maintenance of Polycom telecommunication units, and phone support with doctors.

### iOS Mobile Application Programming Intern @ Creatively Blind
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Developed iOS applications with a marketing agency for a large insurance company in Bakersfield, CA.
- Learned Swift along with Objective-C in Xcode to produce high quality mobile applications.

### Volunteer Programmer @ Tim S. Baker Cryoelectron Mycroscopy Lab
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | University of California, San Diego
- Enhancement of software deployment and compilation of Auto3DEM – software used at multiple research labs to three-dimensionally represent biological components on supercomputers.
- Gained experience in the research, technicalities, and co-operation needed for professional software deployment.

### Cashier & Food Handler/Preparer @ SlapShot Snax
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014
- Worked an all-around position handling money, maintaining a healthy and clean working environment, preparing food, and communicating effectively to customers in both Spanish and English.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nmc6
- Portfolio: https://mc6.sh

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Last updated: 2026-04-12