Nick's Software Engineering Posts

Professional History

Charter Communications, Experience Standards Organization

Senior Software Engineer, Senior Design Technologist

Greenwood Village, Colorado

Aug 2023 - Present

Distributed System Dependency Analysis & Graph Database Architecture: Architected Neo4j graph database solution within Docker Compose network to model complex dependency relationships across distributed microfrontend system. Built automated scraping infrastructure using Bun.js and Bitbucket REST API to continuously analyze system topology, constructing RESTful API to serve graph nodes and relationships for operational visibility through dedicated UI with React, and TypeScript.
Advanced Static Analysis Infrastructure: Developed comprehensive system auditing tool using Babel, Acorn, Tree-Sitter, Webpack, and Bun.js to convert internal packages into ASTs, enabling granular dependency tracking and identifying architectural vulnerabilities. Automated detection of circular dependencies, version conflicts, and deprecated dependency usage.
Real-Time Bidirectional Communication System: Designed and implemented production-ready real-time chat system for agent-customer interactions using WebSockets, Bun.js, and React. Architected message routing layer for high-concurrency scenarios with low latency, integrating with Generative AI models for context-aware assistance.
Rapid Prototyping Infrastructure: Created reusable template for high-velocity React.js prototyping with customized Bun.js server, WebSocket infrastructure, optimized build system, and automated CI/CD pipelines. Reduced prototype-to-deployment cycle time by 40% through streamlined tooling and infrastructure-as-code patterns.
Cross-Platform R&D Prototyping Lead: Developed R&D prototypes for Spectrum Core Ordering, Billing, and Mobile platforms. Led user experience testing with production agents, implementing iterative feedback loops. Set up pilot role infrastructure with A/B rollout wave configuration for zero-downtime deployments.
System Performance Optimization: Led Spectrum Ordering dashboard refactor that reduced page load times by 29% through component memoization, state update batching, and performance-optimized rendering patterns. Profiled runtime bottlenecks using React profiler and custom fiber instrumentation.
CI/CD Pipeline Optimization: Engineered Gitlab CI/CD pipeline using multi-stage Docker images and distributed caching strategies for Mapbox GL Web App deployment. Achieved 19% reduction in deployment time through multi-layer caching and parallel build jobs.
Responsive & Accessible UI Migration: Led technical workstream to refactor internal SAAS sales dashboard for full mobile and tablet responsiveness while ensuring WCAG 2.0 compliance. Implemented adaptive layout patterns and semantic HTML improvements in under 2 months.
Cross-Functional Tooling & Developer Experience: Built Figma plugins using Figma REST API to synchronize Git/Figma branching workflows and enable semantic versioned design handoffs between design and development teams.

Rust Go TypeScript JavaScript React Bun.js WebSockets Neo4j Docker Gitlab CI/CD Webpack D3.js Figma API Bitbucket REST API AWS

Amazon, Amazon Games Organization

Software Development Engineer, SDE Interviewer

Denver, Colorado

Aug 2021 - June 2023

High-Availability Synthetic Monitoring System: Architected and deployed synthetic integration test infrastructure for Digital Goods Fulfillment endpoints running on AWS Fargate with 5-minute polling intervals. Built comprehensive observability into AWS CloudFormation for proactive latency detection and outage monitoring, reducing mean time to detection (MTTD) for service degradation.
Compliance-Driven Payment Architecture for EU Markets: Designed and implemented isomorphic payment flow meeting EU GDPR data privacy requirements using AWS Step Functions and Java Spring. Built state machine orchestration for one-time payments with automated payment record removal within regulatory timelines, ensuring compliance across EU and EMEA marketplaces.
Monolith-to-Microfrontend Migration: Led architectural migration of monolithic Next.js application to distributed micro-frontends using Webpack Module Federation and custom Native Webpack Plugins. Reduced build times from 11 minutes to 6 minutes and decreased bundle sizes through lazy code splitting and runtime module loading.
Gotham Design System Founder & Technical Lead: Founded and served as Lead Developer for Amazon Gotham, a cross-platform design system supporting Prime Gaming, Prime Video, and Amazon Digital Goods. Built implementation libraries in React, Angular, and Native Components. Led PR reviews, consumer integrations, WCAG accessibility audits, and managed distributed development team.
No-Code Content Management Platform: Built graphical UI for retail page creation with Gotham DS, enabling A/B testing, multi-region localization, clickstream metric integration, and asset management. Enabled non-technical Product Managers and Designers to directly manage storefronts, reducing time-to-market for iterative deployments.

JavaScript TypeScript React Next.js Angular Micro-Frontends Design Systems Amazon Web Services Java Spring GraphQL AWS Fargate AWS Step Functions

Infosys Limited

Associate Software Engineer

Denver, Colorado

Jan 2021 - Aug 2021

Event-Driven Service Automation: Developed event-driven architecture to automate CenturyLink's telecom and internet service disconnect process, eliminating manual intervention and increasing operational efficiency through asynchronous message processing, step functions, event reporting, and fault-tolerant retry mechanisms.

Java Spring Boot RabbitMQ Event-Driven Architecture Azure

Boost Fitness

Software Engineer

Salt Lake City, Utah

Jan 2021 - Jan 2022

Payment System Integration: Implemented Stripe.js payment onboarding for new user registration with custom internal event metric emission on payment events, reducing user setup friction and enabling detailed analytics on conversion funnels.
Microservice Architecture Migration: Led migration from monolithic API to distributed microservices using Docker, MySQL, Redis, and Node.js. Improved system scalability, fault tolerance, and reduced load throttling through service isolation and independent scaling.

Node.js Docker MySQL Redis Stripe API Microservices

Intuily, Inc. (Formerly Sodalyt)

Lead Mobile App Developer

New York City, NY

Aug 2020 - Jan 2021

Serverless Mobile Architecture: Architected mobile application using React Native, AWS AppSync, AWS Lambda, and AWS SageMaker, implementing real-time data synchronization and behavioral analytics for personality assessment platform.
Automated Native App Deployment: Created CI/CD pipelines for native app artifact deployment to Apple App Store and Google Play Store, eliminating manual deployments and enabling rapid release iteration cycles.

React Native AWS AppSync AWS Lambda AWS SageMaker CI/CD

Open Source

Crates.io - debugrs

A lightweight logging utility library written in Rust, modeled after the Node.js npm debug package. ~3k downloads.

Rust Crates.io

LazyOllama [Release Candidate]

A GUI for managing Ollama models on hardware you own. RPC with React, Typescript, Rust, Postgres, Docker, NGINX.

Typescript React Rust Postgres Docker NGINX

Linux System Monitor [Release Candidate]

A Fielding Compliant HATEOAS Server, supports JSON REST, supplies real time system usage updates on Linux hosts.

Rust REST API HATEOAS

Personal Projects

LazyOllama

Browser-based GUI that serves as a SAAS Dashboard for the Ollama REST Client, allowing a user to pull, run, and manage open source AI models on their own hardware using Ollama and Open-WebUI.

Typescript WebSockets React Turborepo Bun.js Open-WebUI Ollama Docker Rust Postgres NGINX

Pokemon Color Synchronizer

A cross browser lighting platform that synchronizes multiple browser windows and tabs to the same animated color wheel, theme. Allows a user to distill a theme wheel from a chosen pokemon. This one's mad cool.

ES6 Broadcast Channel PokemonTCGAPI Pokemon API

Interests

My Dogs and My Fiance: Wouldn't have made it here without them, they're the best. I'm happy to say I'm also super interested in them.
The Dallas Cowboys: It's a down year alright, but a real fan rides the ups and downs, knowing that Jones family will eventually move to Romania in exile.
The Eagles (The Band, not the Football Team): If you come across a better song than Desperado, don't tell me about it.
Web Performance Optimization: Researching and implementing techniques to maximize frontend performance and user experience based on new browser and ecmascript features.
SOLID Protocol Data Emancipation in the Digital Age. You should read up on the SOLID protocol. It's the abandoned step-child of Tim Berner's Lee
Rust, and Systems and Embedded Programming Rust is just my favorite. I could go on forever, but I won't. I love Rust, and it's allowing me to level up as a programmer in ways I could not previously imagine.
Micro-Frontend Architecture: Developing strategies for implementing and scaling micro-frontend approaches in enterprise applications.
Thanks for getting this far, and taking an interest in my interests.

Professional History

Charter Communications, Experience Standards Organization

Senior Software Engineer, Senior Design Technologist

Greenwood Village, Colorado

Aug 2023 - Present

Distributed System Dependency Analysis & Graph Database Architecture: Architected Neo4j graph database solution within Docker Compose network to model complex dependency relationships across distributed microfrontend system. Built automated scraping infrastructure using Bun.js and Bitbucket REST API to continuously analyze system topology, constructing RESTful API to serve graph nodes and relationships for operational visibility through dedicated UI with React, and TypeScript.
Advanced Static Analysis Infrastructure: Developed comprehensive system auditing tool using Babel, Acorn, Tree-Sitter, Webpack, and Bun.js to convert internal packages into ASTs, enabling granular dependency tracking and identifying architectural vulnerabilities. Automated detection of circular dependencies, version conflicts, and deprecated dependency usage.
Real-Time Bidirectional Communication System: Designed and implemented production-ready real-time chat system for agent-customer interactions using WebSockets, Bun.js, and React. Architected message routing layer for high-concurrency scenarios with low latency, integrating with Generative AI models for context-aware assistance.
Rapid Prototyping Infrastructure: Created reusable template for high-velocity React.js prototyping with customized Bun.js server, WebSocket infrastructure, optimized build system, and automated CI/CD pipelines. Reduced prototype-to-deployment cycle time by 40% through streamlined tooling and infrastructure-as-code patterns.
Cross-Platform R&D Prototyping Lead: Developed R&D prototypes for Spectrum Core Ordering, Billing, and Mobile platforms. Led user experience testing with production agents, implementing iterative feedback loops. Set up pilot role infrastructure with A/B rollout wave configuration for zero-downtime deployments.
System Performance Optimization: Led Spectrum Ordering dashboard refactor that reduced page load times by 29% through component memoization, state update batching, and performance-optimized rendering patterns. Profiled runtime bottlenecks using React profiler and custom fiber instrumentation.
CI/CD Pipeline Optimization: Engineered Gitlab CI/CD pipeline using multi-stage Docker images and distributed caching strategies for Mapbox GL Web App deployment. Achieved 19% reduction in deployment time through multi-layer caching and parallel build jobs.
Responsive & Accessible UI Migration: Led technical workstream to refactor internal SAAS sales dashboard for full mobile and tablet responsiveness while ensuring WCAG 2.0 compliance. Implemented adaptive layout patterns and semantic HTML improvements in under 2 months.
Cross-Functional Tooling & Developer Experience: Built Figma plugins using Figma REST API to synchronize Git/Figma branching workflows and enable semantic versioned design handoffs between design and development teams.

Rust Go TypeScript JavaScript React Bun.js WebSockets Neo4j Docker Gitlab CI/CD Webpack D3.js Figma API Bitbucket REST API AWS

Amazon, Amazon Games Organization

Software Development Engineer, SDE Interviewer

Denver, Colorado

Aug 2021 - June 2023

High-Availability Synthetic Monitoring System: Architected and deployed synthetic integration test infrastructure for Digital Goods Fulfillment endpoints running on AWS Fargate with 5-minute polling intervals. Built comprehensive observability into AWS CloudFormation for proactive latency detection and outage monitoring, reducing mean time to detection (MTTD) for service degradation.
Compliance-Driven Payment Architecture for EU Markets: Designed and implemented isomorphic payment flow meeting EU GDPR data privacy requirements using AWS Step Functions and Java Spring. Built state machine orchestration for one-time payments with automated payment record removal within regulatory timelines, ensuring compliance across EU and EMEA marketplaces.
Monolith-to-Microfrontend Migration: Led architectural migration of monolithic Next.js application to distributed micro-frontends using Webpack Module Federation and custom Native Webpack Plugins. Reduced build times from 11 minutes to 6 minutes and decreased bundle sizes through lazy code splitting and runtime module loading.
Gotham Design System Founder & Technical Lead: Founded and served as Lead Developer for Amazon Gotham, a cross-platform design system supporting Prime Gaming, Prime Video, and Amazon Digital Goods. Built implementation libraries in React, Angular, and Native Components. Led PR reviews, consumer integrations, WCAG accessibility audits, and managed distributed development team.
No-Code Content Management Platform: Built graphical UI for retail page creation with Gotham DS, enabling A/B testing, multi-region localization, clickstream metric integration, and asset management. Enabled non-technical Product Managers and Designers to directly manage storefronts, reducing time-to-market for iterative deployments.

JavaScript TypeScript React Next.js Angular Micro-Frontends Design Systems Amazon Web Services Java Spring GraphQL AWS Fargate AWS Step Functions

Infosys Limited

Associate Software Engineer

Denver, Colorado

Jan 2021 - Aug 2021

Event-Driven Service Automation: Developed event-driven architecture to automate CenturyLink's telecom and internet service disconnect process, eliminating manual intervention and increasing operational efficiency through asynchronous message processing, step functions, event reporting, and fault-tolerant retry mechanisms.

Java Spring Boot RabbitMQ Event-Driven Architecture Azure

Boost Fitness

Software Engineer

Salt Lake City, Utah

Jan 2021 - Jan 2022

Payment System Integration: Implemented Stripe.js payment onboarding for new user registration with custom internal event metric emission on payment events, reducing user setup friction and enabling detailed analytics on conversion funnels.
Microservice Architecture Migration: Led migration from monolithic API to distributed microservices using Docker, MySQL, Redis, and Node.js. Improved system scalability, fault tolerance, and reduced load throttling through service isolation and independent scaling.

Node.js Docker MySQL Redis Stripe API Microservices

Intuily, Inc. (Formerly Sodalyt)

Lead Mobile App Developer

New York City, NY

Aug 2020 - Jan 2021

Serverless Mobile Architecture: Architected mobile application using React Native, AWS AppSync, AWS Lambda, and AWS SageMaker, implementing real-time data synchronization and behavioral analytics for personality assessment platform.
Automated Native App Deployment: Created CI/CD pipelines for native app artifact deployment to Apple App Store and Google Play Store, eliminating manual deployments and enabling rapid release iteration cycles.

React Native AWS AppSync AWS Lambda AWS SageMaker CI/CD

Open Source

Personal Projects

LazyOllama

Browser-based GUI that serves as a SAAS Dashboard for the Ollama REST Client, allowing a user to pull, run, and manage open source AI models on their own hardware using Ollama and Open-WebUI.

Typescript WebSockets React Turborepo Bun.js Open-WebUI Ollama Docker Rust Postgres NGINX

Pokemon Color Synchronizer

ES6 Broadcast Channel PokemonTCGAPI Pokemon API

Interests

My Dogs and My Fiance: Wouldn't have made it here without them, they're the best. I'm happy to say I'm also super interested in them.
The Dallas Cowboys: It's a down year alright, but a real fan rides the ups and downs, knowing that Jones family will eventually move to Romania in exile.
The Eagles (The Band, not the Football Team): If you come across a better song than Desperado, don't tell me about it.
Web Performance Optimization: Researching and implementing techniques to maximize frontend performance and user experience based on new browser and ecmascript features.
SOLID Protocol Data Emancipation in the Digital Age. You should read up on the SOLID protocol. It's the abandoned step-child of Tim Berner's Lee
Rust, and Systems and Embedded Programming Rust is just my favorite. I could go on forever, but I won't. I love Rust, and it's allowing me to level up as a programmer in ways I could not previously imagine.
Micro-Frontend Architecture: Developing strategies for implementing and scaling micro-frontend approaches in enterprise applications.
Thanks for getting this far, and taking an interest in my interests.