Nick Barone
Contract Software Engineer at Rivet Industries
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Barone is a versatile contract software engineer based in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications, data pipelines, and DevOps automation. He has moved between hands-on engineering and technical leadership—coaching junior teams, advising on architecture for near green-field rebuilds, and implementing security updates like StateRAMP. His background spans Rails APIs powering React frontends, Redshift-backed BI, Unity3D demos, and low-level embedded work, reflecting a rare breadth from C/assembly to modern web stacks. Nick routinely takes on legacy modernization and mentorship-heavy roles, improving codebases while growing junior engineers’ capabilities. He’s selective about opportunities—requesting location, salary, and tech stack up front—indicating a pragmatic, efficiency-first approach to contracting. Outside traditional repos, his public presence links to creative projects like Rangerscience, suggesting interests that bridge engineering and community-driven work.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteHigh School, High School at Maybeck Highschool
English
Github Skills (200)
stimulusjs10
test-coverage10
browser10
turbo10
slack-api10
finance10
audit10
vrtk10
slack-bot10
hotwire10
ruby10
postgresql10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript-api10
flask10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rangerscience/maptionary
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:61 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
rangerscience/playacamp
Sep 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
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