# Nicholas Pena

> Software Engineer at Foursquare

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Foursquare
Jan 2021 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Data Engineer Fellow @ Insight Data Science
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
- Developed a data pipeline to aggregate the number of occurrences of words from web pages so that advertisers can determine which topics trend over time
- Designed a web interface using Flask to allow users to query the frequency of over 370,000 English dictionary words, and submit requests for non-dictionary word queries using Airflow
- Utilized AWS and Spark to process about 1TB of web pages from the Common Crawl dataset
- Partitioned data from 2018 through the use of PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB to optimize read/write functions


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicholaspena
- GitHub: https://github.com/dragontail/InsightProject

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Last updated: 2026-04-13