Nic Lake
Lead Full Stack Engineer at Stitch Fix
Davenport, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNic Lake is a Lead Full Stack Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building web applications and platforms across Ruby on Rails, React, Python, Java, and AWS. He combines full-stack development with prior roles in business analysis, database and network support, which helps him translate complex requirements into maintainable systems and pragmatic roadmaps. At Stitch Fix he shapes loyalty and incentives strategy while mentoring engineers and delivering cross-functional solutions. An active open-source contributor, Nic has extended popular projects to support Mastodon integrations and contributes keyboard firmware work in the QMK/Vial ecosystem, showing a knack for both web-scale features and low-level embedded customization. Based in Davenport, Iowa, he’s the kind of engineer who keeps spreadsheets to track his spreadsheets—methodical, curious, and unfazed by diverse technical challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Cedar Falls High SchoolBachelor of Arts, Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Arts, Management Information Systems at University of Northern Iowa - College of Business Administration
English
Stackoverflow
134reputation
12kreached
8answers
20questions
Github Skills (28)
javascript10
qmk-firmware10
webfinger10
keymaps10
remap10
keyboard-layout10
keymapping10
mastodon10
customisation10
customizing10
web-development10
react10
c-programming9
css9
sys9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
vial-kb/vial-qmk
May 2024 - Aug 2024
QMK fork with Vial-specific features.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3 PRs, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nic primarily focuses on keyboard firmware development within the QMK ecosystem. They are responsible for creating and modifying keymaps, which involve defining layouts and functionality for various keyboard models. The contributions include adding new layouts, customizing keybindings, and integrating Vial support for dynamic keymap configuration.
vialqmkandroid
wesbos/awesome-uses
May 2024 - May 2024
A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software and configs.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Nic primarily focused on enhancing the repository's functionality to include Mastodon integration. They added features to display Mastodon handles, implemented Webfinger for avatar retrieval, and updated the data structures to support Mastodon usernames. The user also modified the user interface to accommodate the new social media platform and fixed minor display issues. The work involved changes to data structures, component design, and styles.
gearconfigssetups
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