Nicholas Heyn
Software Engineer at Monarch Money
Villa Park, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Heyn is a full-stack software engineer with over five years of professional experience and a broader 11-year involvement in software development, holding a Computer Science degree from the University of Minnesota. He spent 2019–2024 at Shopbop (an Amazon subsidiary) owning critical e-commerce systems—leading a customer loyalty initiative, automating ~137,000 duty/tax refunds with an AWS Lambda, and modernizing cart and checkout from legacy Java to React. Since then he’s built client-facing financial dashboards and internal advisor tools at a startup and now contributes to product engineering at Monarch Money. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, he blends customer-focused feature work with automation that reduces manual toil. Based in Villa Park, IL, he also does freelance web development and favors projects that translate complex business workflows into reliable, user-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Crystal Lake Central High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Minnesota
English
Github Skills (10)
adobe-xd7
command-palette7
styles6
inline6
inline-styles5
javascript4
css4
react4
react-dom4
css-in-js2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nheyn/react-stack-skeleton
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:52 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
nheyn/express-react-router
Oct 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:13 releases, 135 commits, 40 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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