About Nick

I've built a lot of different platforms, apps, and services and have worked for large enterprise and tiny startups. Small teams where wearing many hats, and larger teams with differing skill levels and where had a concentration on leveling up colleagues. I lead a mobile team for the largest healthcare org in the us and I have singlehandedly built dozens of services currently in production today that healthy businesses continue to leverage. I enjoy being involved early in the process and collaborating with cross functional teams to solve problems. And with a drive for simplicity and a curiosity for thinking around corners & alternative solutions.

I enjoy collaborative conversations and humble about actual code, rather find the most effective solution than be right, and many times that is also not an engineering solve, but rather deeper understanding of the requirements and framing or a product/design solution. Ultimately I believe our job is to write less code, have less dependencies, and create predictable scalable solutions that don't reinvent the wheel or waste time solving solved problems. Leveraging experience and doing that up front research saves hours/weeks down the line. Predictable, clean and consistent code unlocks velocity and reduces debt and bugs. Choose boring ! And save your innovation tokens for the unique parts of the business.

v1 make it work, v2+ simplify / refactor and iterate down / reduce verbosity. Influenced by React Rally, Lead Dev, Datadog DASH, Google Cloud Next and other conferences, and really stuck with me from LeadDev NY the other year with a keynote on living cities and how to have healthier codebases. (Will find the video and link it).