Nick Fortner
Senior Software Engineer at Filevine
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Fortner is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years building scalable full‑stack systems, currently shaping backend and frontend architecture at Filevine. He specializes in Go and Node.js API design, React-based frontends, and multi-model data platforms (Postgres, MongoDB, Neo4j, Redis, Cassandra), with extensive AWS serverless and microservices experience. Nick has led distributed engineering teams to deliver high‑traffic SaaS products—ranging from marketing analytics and rebate engines to mobile apps—while improving performance through targeted migrations and search/indexing optimizations. An active open-source contributor, he added robust error handling and type checks to Apollo graphql-tools and implemented a pollForever DynamoDB streaming feature for local Lambda development. Based in Los Angeles, he blends hands‑on engineering with pragmatic architecture, often surfacing nonobvious optimizations like relationship‑preserving search reindexing and durable local stream processing for developer workflows.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Advertising, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Advertising at University of San Francisco
English, Sign languages
Github Skills (72)
wrench10
stitch10
database10
graphql-js10
strings10
redis10
nosql9
graphql-api9
javascript9
data-model9
sql9
csvtojson9
graphql-tools9
jsonb9
postgresql9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nwfortner/Nokkangken
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:39 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
nwfortner/nectar
Feb 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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