Summary
Nick Esquerra is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of professional experience building customer-facing web products and internal infrastructure across agency and product environments. He blends strong front-end expertise (React, TypeScript, AngularJS, vanilla JS, SCSS) with backend familiarity (PHP, MySQL, Redis) and a pragmatic focus on readable, debuggable, maintainable code. Nick has shipped features at scale at Twilio and now drives feature delivery and engineering quality at Zillow, bringing a mindset that "what got us here will not get us there." His career includes tech leadership in international teams and hands-on implementation of full-stack event and reporting systems, reflecting both product and operational instincts. With a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science, he pairs analytical rigor with practical engineering, often favoring incremental improvements that reduce long-term technical debt.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, Sacramento