Summary
Nick Akey is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 9 years of experience delivering end-to-end web applications and leading small engineering teams from system design to pixel-perfect UIs. Comfortable across TypeScript/React, Redux/MobX, Node/Express, Kotlin/Spring, Python/Django and Rails, he emphasizes strong testing practices and extreme ownership to unblock teams before issues escalate. He has a track record of mentoring engineers, introducing modern stacks like TypeScript and Redux at scale, and shipping production systems for real estate and enterprise domains. Nick pairs hands-on implementation (including CSS fine-tuning) with architectural thinking, and has a history of cost-saving integrations and cross-stack bridging between Node and Django. Based in Austin, he blends product-focused engineering with teaching experience from bootcamp-era lecturing and technical mentorship.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Hack Reactor
English, Spanish