Nicholas Smider
Software Engineer at Hightouch
Greater Pittsburgh Region United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Smider is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building full‑stack web platforms and developer-facing products, most recently at Hightouch after leading engineering efforts at Twilio. He has shipped production services across React, GraphQL, Node, Python and MySQL, and has deep experience modernizing front ends and migrating legacy Angular/AngularJS stacks for large organizations. At Capital One he helped build and secure customer‑facing conversational entry points and internal coaching tools, often reducing latency and hardening search infrastructure. Nicholas pairs hands‑on implementation with production support and code review leadership, and he brings an academic grounding from Georgia Tech and the University of Pittsburgh that informs pragmatic engineering choices. A practical polyglot who moves between microservices, serverless, and rich single‑page apps, he has a track record of starting projects from the ground up and integrating them into complex enterprise ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (25)
component-library10
react10
segment10
ui-components9
ui-framework9
react-components8
1c5
aws-lambda4
elasticsearch-client4
aws4
logging4
logstash3
serverless-framework3
elastic3
serverless3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nicksmider/mlb-stat-viewer
Feb 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 4 months
nicksmider/fangraphs-id-scraper
Oct 2019 - Feb 2022
Scrape first and last name of any fangraphs id
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
scraperlast-namepythonscrape
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