Nicholas Russo

nijaru7[at]gmail.com github.com/nijaru nijaru.com

Skills

Languages: Python, Rust, Go, TypeScript, Ruby, C, C++
Backend/APIs: FastAPI, Flask, Django, Ruby on Rails, gRPC
Infrastructure: Docker, Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, CoreOS, Gentoo), AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare
Databases: PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, Redis, ChromaDB, DuckDB
Tools: Git, GitHub Actions, PyO3, maturin, Bun, ONNX

Projects

omendb

github.com/omendb/omendb

Embedded vector database, 4x faster than hnswlib. Rust core with Python (PyO3/maturin) and TypeScript (napi-rs) bindings. Powers a Claude Code memory plugin for persistent agent context

RustPythonTypeScriptPyO3Vector Database

omengrep

github.com/nijaru/omengrep

Semantic code search CLI. ONNX embeddings for concept-based retrieval and tree-sitter AST parsing across 22 languages

RustPythonONNX

canto

github.com/nijaru/canto

Go framework for LLM agents and swarms. Composable provider, agent, session, and tool interfaces with multi-provider support, append-only session state, and deterministic orchestration

GoAI/ML

ion

github.com/nijaru/ion

Coding agent with multi-provider LLM support and persistent context management. Go rewrite in progress on canto

RustGoAI/ML

aku

github.com/nijaru/aku

Go web framework for JSON APIs. Typed handlers with automatic request extraction, zero-reflect hot path, and OpenAPI 3.0 generation. 5% faster with 41% lower memory than raw net/http

Gonet/http

jb / tk

github.com/nijaru/jb

Agent tooling: jb manages long-running background tasks with log streaming; tk tracks tasks and dependencies across LLM context boundaries

RustGoCLI

Experience

Software Engineer

January 2021 - May 2023

Omnitier, Inc.

  • Reduced test suite runtime by 90% (45 min to 5 min) by profiling and reducing syscall overhead in filesystem operations
  • Built gRPC Python API layer for distributed Go backend services
  • Developed regression testing infrastructure across Go and Python codebases

Awards

2nd Place & Ingenico Winner, Money 20/20 Las Vegas 2016

Team Kairos

Developed cross-terminal payment application with REST API for business partnerships. Built with Go and PostgreSQL, deployed on CoreOS

Education

42 Silicon Valley

Computer Science, Fremont, CA

2018 - 2020

Las Positas College

Computer Science, Livermore, CA

Computer Science Club President 2016 - 2017

2014 - 2015, 2016 - 2018

Dev Bootcamp

Web Development, San Francisco, CA

March 2016 - May 2016
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