Nick Funk
Senior Software Engineer at Vox Media, LLC.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolNick Funk is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building real-time, multi-user systems and 2D/3D rendering tools, currently focused on community infrastructure at Vox Media (Coral Project). He moves comfortably between front-end and back-end stacks—TypeScript, React, Node, GraphQL, Mongo/Redis and Kubernetes—while drawing on a strong C++ and graphics background from VFX and visualization work. His career spans high-performance data acquisition and OpenGL visualization for industrial clients to interactive VFX plugin UIs and scalable community platforms, giving him a rare blend of systems, graphics, and UX sensibilities. Nick is an active open-source contributor (see Coral Project and personal GitHub) and enjoys hobbyist game and rendering development, reflecting a creative drive that informs pragmatic engineering. Based in Calgary, he inhabits the intersection of film and web development, often translating cinematic ideas into robust, production-ready features.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Computer Science, Computer Graphics, Data Visualization, 3.5, B.Sc Computer Science, Computer Graphics, Data Visualization, 3.5 at The University of Calgary
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Github Skills (34)
javascript10
typescript10
journalism10
graphql10
nodejs10
react10
facebook9
npm-package9
static-site9
wordpress-api9
wordpress-plugin8
testing8
cms7
wordpress7
netlify-cms7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nick-funk/radium
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
nick-funk/nickfunk-site
Aug 2020 - Nov 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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