Nick Echols
Staff Software Engineer at Scribd, Inc.
Truckee, California, United States
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Top SchoolNick Echols is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of full‑stack experience, currently driving product and platform work at Scribd after rising through senior engineering roles. He blends front-end craftsmanship (React, CSS Modules) with solid back-end skills (Rails, PostgreSQL, GraphQL), and has a track record of shipping growth-driving features—helping Hackster.io scale from ~75K to ~1M members. A rapid iterater and insatiable tinkerer, he favors intense collaboration and clear, sometimes irreverent, communication to unblock teams and move fast. His background spans web performance optimizations (materialized views for notification caching), building custom publishing systems, and hands-on system overhauls, reflecting both product sensibility and practical engineering. Based in Truckee, CA, he pairs creative interdisciplinary training from UCSD and Hack Reactor with sustained production leadership in consumer-facing platforms.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program at Hack ReactorUniversity of California, San Diego
Github Skills (9)
sustainability9
music9
audio9
web-application8
recording7
monitoring6
css1
javascript1
react1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
acrobatic-spork/SporkHub
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:134 commits, 100 PRs, 49 pushes in 2 months
open-source-software
steryereo/gnarday
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
Count the number of days you've skied this season
Contributions:95 PRs, 92 pushes, 36 branches in 1 year 3 months
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