Nicholas West
Senior Software Engineer at Instinct Science
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas West is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and stabilizing products across APAC and US startups, from pre-seed to Series A. A crisis defuser and "bug assassin," he combines hands-on full‑stack TypeScript and Elixir/Phoenix expertise with operational leadership—having built SaaS systems, led teams at HKU, and co‑founded a HIPAA-focused MAT startup. He’s an active open-source contributor (Elixir/Phoenix, Solidity compiler, React Native ecosystems) and author of practical guides and npm packages that reflect a taste for shipping developer-facing tools. Equally comfortable training CTOs or digging into production-only anomalies, Nicholas brings a journalist’s clarity to technical documentation and a historian’s attention to detail, demonstrated by his published editorial and archival work. Based in New York, he favors resilient BEAM architectures while pragmatically delivering full‑stack solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Metuchen High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) English, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English at Rutgers University
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Github Skills (40)
twitter-api10
twitter9
simulation9
scraper9
rust9
compiler8
co-simulation8
data-exchange8
messaging8
rust-lang7
read-write7
webapp7
standard-library7
simulation-framework7
crate7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TheHashTableSlasher/ltbvis
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:6 PRs, 91 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 9 months
DisasterMasters/TweetAnalysis
Sep 2018 - May 2019
Repository for storing the code used to analyse the tweets collected from the Twitter scraper
Contributions:52 commits, 31 pushes, 4 comments in 8 months
pythonstoringtwitter-scrapertwitter-apitwitter
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