Nick Frasser
Senior Software Engineer at Structura Biotechnology
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarNick Frasser is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scientific software, computer graphics, and language-focused UIs, currently contributing to Structura Biotechnology from Old Toronto. He combines front-end craftsmanship—evidenced by contributions to linkifyjs, where he improved URL/email detection and built a basic React interface—with domain-focused engineering in biotech. Comfortable across the stack, Nick blends pragmatic problem-solving with a taste for elegant UI and text processing challenges. Colleagues know him for shipping polished features quickly and for an inquisitive, slightly unconventional perspective on engineering.
12 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (14)
html10
javascript10
react9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
lifetime6
codesign6
rust6
macos6
dmg6
dom6
ffmpeg6
hevc6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nfrasser/linkifyjs
Dec 2013 - Jan 2023
JavaScript plugin for finding links in plain-text and converting them to HTML <a> tags.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:43 releases, 10 reviews, 570 commits in 9 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the JavaScript-based plugin, `linkifyjs`, adding new functionality to convert plain text to HTML links. The user fixed whitespace issues and added new functionalities, including detecting and creating HTML links for URLs, emails, and also HTML attributes for custom formatting. The user also worked on building a basic React interface.
reactlinkifyfindingjavascriptemail
nfrasser/simple-html-tokenizer
Nov 2015 - Oct 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 12 pushes, 8 branches in 6 years
javascript-librarytokenizingjavascriptbodylightweight-javascript-library
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