Nick Elser
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Elser is a technology leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling teams and web systems from the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends hands-on front-end development—demonstrated by impactful contributions to the We Vote React app improving search UX, keyboard navigation, and state management—with a knack for growing engineering organizations. His international education in China and Hong Kong gives him a global perspective on product and user needs, useful for diverse teams and civic tech. Nick excels at turning nuanced UI edge cases into polished, production-ready features while also mentoring teams to adopt robust state and styling patterns. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and mission-focused, equally comfortable shipping code or shaping team strategy. He seeks roles where product impact, UX quality, and team growth intersect.
14 years of coding experience
International Baccalaureate, -, International Baccalaureate, - at Li Po Chun United World College of Hong KongInternational Relations and Affairs, International Relations and Affairs at Peking UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, China and Asia Pacific Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, China and Asia Pacific Studies at Cornell University
Github Skills (7)
css10
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
react10
html9
responsive-design8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
wevote/WebApp
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
We Vote's javascript (client-side) mobile website built with React/Flux. Twitter: @WeVote Apple Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/we-vote-voter-guide/id1347335726 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wevote.cordova&hl=en_US
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 10 PRs, 2 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and improving the search functionality of the We Vote web application. They implemented keyboard navigation and improved state management within the search box, including adding react-y CSS and transitions. The user also addressed popover issues and fixed styling problems within various components, such as the organization card and tiny position breakdowns. Furthermore, the user fixed an edge case for search results and added a clear button.
androidjavascriptmobilereacttwitter
nickelser/activejob-traffic_control
Jun 2016 - Jan 2017
Rate limiting/job enabling for ActiveJob using distributed locks in Redis or Memcached.
Contributions:4 releases, 28 commits, 2 PRs in 7 months
distributed-lockmemcachedrate-limitingredis
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