About Nick

I've spent my career building across the full spectrum — from tiny startups where I wore every hat, to the largest healthcare organization in the US leading a mobile engineering team. I've singlehandedly built dozens of services that are still in production today, powering healthy businesses. I've also worked on larger teams where much of my assigned focus was leveling up the people around me.

Fall in love with the problem.

I like being involved early. The best work I've done has come from collaborating with cross-functional teams — product, design, engineering — before a single line of code is written. Many times the most effective solution isn't an engineering solve at all, but a deeper understanding of the requirements and a sharper framing of the problem. I'm humble about code. I'd rather find the right solution through cross functional collaboration than always be right. Constantly driven toward simplicity — less is less.

Velocity is a conscious choice.

Influenced + inspired by many communities and conferences. BrooklynJS, React Rally, Lead Dev, Gophercon, Datadog DASH, NDC, Google Cloud Next + many more. I also keep coming back to Marianne Bellotti's Kill It with Fire — it reframed how I think about legacy systems and making pragmatic choices about what to modernize and what to leave alone. Required reading for anyone in or aiming for a technical leadership role.

If any of this resonates, hit me up. Let's talk shop!