Nick Arocho
Senior UI Software Engineer at Boldly Fine, LLC
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolNick Arocho is a Senior UI Software Engineer in Los Angeles with eight years of experience building polished, high-performance front-end experiences and cloud-enabled developer tools. A former professional musician turned designer turned engineer, he blends creative UX sensibilities with pragmatic engineering—shipping scalable UI solutions at Apple while previously driving Amplify's Auth and DataStore APIs at AWS. He founded and runs a boutique agency that has launched 100+ sites and still teaches full-stack web development part-time at UCLA, so he pairs hands-on mentoring with product-focused delivery. Notably, his open-source contributions to aws-amplify include TypeScript refactors, data validation fixes, and bug patches that improved authentication and datastore robustness for a widely used cloud library.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music (B.M.), Performance, Jazz, Bachelor of Music (B.M.), Performance, Jazz at Arizona State UniversityWeb Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General Assembly
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Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
data-storage10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
amazon-cognito10
typescript-types10
aws-amplify10
aws9
react6
mobile-development5
mobile5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aws-amplify/amplify-js
Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
A declarative JavaScript library for application development using cloud services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:91 reviews, 30 commits, 41 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on the `@aws-amplify/auth` and `@aws-amplify/datastore` packages, contributing to the core functionality of authentication and data storage within the Amplify JavaScript library. Their work involved refactoring types, defining and redefining data validation, and adding unit tests. They also addressed bugs, such as coercing undefined field values to null within data storage, exposing timestamp fields, and preventing writing to read-only fields. This involved modifying core TypeScript files and test suites.
pwaamazon-cognitoawsaws-mobilestorage
nickarocho/minesweeper
Dec 2017 - Apr 2018
The classic game with the classic look (Client-side Game) | HTML, CSS, JavaScript, recursion
Contributions:15 commits, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
client-sidecsses6gamejavascript
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