Nick Denardis
Senior Director Of Digital Experience And Innovation
Sterling Heights, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolNick Denardis is a seasoned digital experience leader with 14 years of web strategy and hands-on engineering experience, currently serving as Senior Director of Digital Experience and Innovation at Wayne State University. He leads enterprise-scale governance for 500+ websites, 2,000+ content editors, and campus-wide digital accessibility efforts while building tooling that shifts publishing power to content owners. A minimalist UX crafter and former lead developer, he blends information science (MLIS) and computer science backgrounds to marry usable design with open, accessible data. He also teaches programming and information science as adjunct faculty and brings practical event-technology leadership as TEDxDetroit’s executive producer and technical director. Nick’s unusual combination of library science thinking and production-grade web tooling means he prioritizes discoverability and long-term information architecture, not just flashy interfaces. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex institutional needs into maintainable, user-centered digital ecosystems.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MLIS Information Management, MLIS Information Management at Wayne State University
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Github Skills (49)
laravel10
php10
tailwindcss10
browser-extension9
laravel-nova8
ckeditor7
targetprocess7
twitch-api7
newsapi6
wysiwyg6
autocomplete6
health6
twitter-api6
fitness6
twitter6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
waynestate/wsufooter
Jan 2018 - Jan 2026
Wayne State University Footer
Contributions:17 PRs, 21 pushes, 11 branches in 8 years 1 month
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