Nick Nisi

With more than 15 years in the industry as a dedicated JavaScript and TypeScript specialist, I actively advocate for community through teaching and enhancing developer tooling. I'm a panelist on the JS Party podcast and I proudly organized Nebraska's sole JavaScript conference.

Omaha, Nebraska

Work Experience

WorkOS

San Francisco, CA

Remote

2024

Present

Developer Experience Engineer

Meta

Menlo Park, CA

Remote

2024

Software Engineer

Developed and implemented high-priority bug fixes and features, including an onboarding wizard, directly contributing to increased revenue and improved user experience
Led cross-functional efforts, including bugfix initiative, alignment on new cross-platform APIs, and the planning and execution of an internal UI summit for front-end developers
Utilized React, JavaScript/Flow, and Hack/PHP to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions, leveraging extensive knowledge of the React ecosystem to write performant and effective code
Demonstrated strong leadership and mentorship skills by guiding and onboarding new team members, and driving the development of cross-platform APIs to enhance team efficiency and collaboration
Fostered a productive partnership between the Ads Manager Desktop and Signals teams by establishing regular communication channels and ensuring timely responsiveness to mutual needs, resulting in seamless cross- functional collaboration

C2FO

Kansas City, KS

Remote

2021

2024

Staff Developer Experience Engineer

Maintainer of custom configurations and tooling to facilitate productivity across monorepo
Developed and maintained scripts and codemods to automate work and enforce best practices
Maintainer of design system and react component library using MUI and Storybook
Lead front end chapter meetings to discuss new paradigms and best practices
Lead on project building a complex builder application using multiple state machines
Oversaw conversion from react-scripts to vite in the frontend monorepo

C2FO

Kansas City, KS

Remote

2020

2021

Senior Software Engineer II

Oversaw and implemented the upgrade of React and TypeScript in a monorepo with more than 70 apps without introducing regressions
Implemented tooling that used AST walking to identify areas of application that were missing internationalization
Maintainer of React component library for internal design system
Full-stack development with TypeScript, implementing GraphQL APIs with NestJS, and consuming them in a React front end

Sitepen

Palo Alto, CA

Remote

2013

2020

Senior Software Engineer

Open Source Contributor, ensuring success on many company and community open source initiatives including Dojo, Intern, TypeDoc, and CodeSandbox
Instructor, teaching 2-5 day workshops online and in-person on topics including TypeScript, JavaScript fundamentals, and Dojo.
Lead Developer, managing teams of up to three developers on successful customer-facing projects for world-class clients including hotels, government agencies, and banks.
Lead Support Engineer, providing timely and thorough answers to technical questions from developers about code, bugs, testing, and architecture.

Flywheel

Omaha, NE

2018

Senior Software Engineer

Developer on the Fly-tools team, delivering tools to internal users to ensure success of a thriving startup and web-hosting company
Introduced TypeScript to the company via the development of a small application for linking support tickets

C2FO (Pollenware)

Kansas City, KS

Remote

2011

2013

Senior Software Engineer

Part of core development team delivering results which lead to $9.1 million funding round lead by Union Square Ventures.
Designed and developed frontend architecture on c2fo.com with a focus on the responsive design and using Backbone, RequireJS, Handlebars, and Less to create a friendly single page application.

Freelancing

Omaha, NE

Remote

2012

Freelance Developer

Architected and implemented a proof of concept application for a client utilizing advanced HTML5 and canvas technologies.
Demonstrated the feasibility of using these technologies to make a custom, drag and drop interface that is functional on desktop and iPad/tablet devices.
Utilized Backbone Models and Views to manage rendering and state of shapes and images drawn to a canvas.
Connected to simple REST interface written in Ruby on Rails to save and load state.
Delivered on time and successfully.

Lockheed Martin

Omaha, NE

2009

2011

Software Engineer / Englineering Leadership Development Program

Accepted into Engineering Leadership Development Program (ELDP) based on job performance, panel interviews, and essays.
Development lead for maintenance drop focusing on performance enhancement and usability, where duties include leading a team of three engineers, supporting builds and turnovers, and cross functional coordination to facilitate the engineering life cycle.
Lead Developer of a system demo application using Flash and driven by XML files which included audio narration, videos, and interactive elements for the customer and met regularly with a customer working group to ensure the demo met their needs.
Chief Architect and lead developer of a metrics reporting web application written in Groovy/Grails that reads data from another application database and generates reports using JasperReports.