Nicholas Geismar
Software Engineer at National Write Your Congressman, Inc.
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Geismar is a software engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building full-stack JavaScript applications, currently based in Santa Monica. He has strong expertise in Node.js backends, relational Postgres databases, and modern front-end frameworks including React, React Native, Redux and Vue. As lead developer on Cook'd, he shipped a React Native social app with image upload, feeds, messaging and a Heroku-deployed Express/Postgres API, demonstrating product-focused end-to-end delivery. He also built e-commerce functionality—auth, guest checkout, and cart flows—showing practical experience integrating third-party auth and payment flows. Nicholas combines formal biology training with immersive JavaScript bootcamp education, a mix that supports disciplined experimentation and rapid prototyping. He currently contributes engineering capacity to National Write Your Congressman, applying his stack to mission-driven projects.
16 years of coding experience
Javascript, Javascript at Fullstack AcademyBachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General at University at Albany, SUNY
Github Skills (27)
spree8
formtastic7
gdata7
django7
ruby-wrapper6
react-native-component6
react5
firebase5
rating5
ruby5
twitter-bootstrap5
cron5
image4
react-native4
bootstrap4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nzaillian/newsroom
Aug 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:50 commits, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
nzaillian/django-encrypted-secrets
Apr 2019 - Jun 2020
Encrypted secrets for Django applications
Contributions:6 releases, 44 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 1 month
django
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