Nick Hall
Principal Software Engineer at DePaul University
Schaumburg, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolNick Hall is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of full-stack experience, currently leading engineering efforts at InMarket after rising from individual contributor to team lead. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/TypeScript with React and Vue, and has built both client-facing analytics apps and backend services that work with raw SQL and large datasets across on-prem and cloud environments. Comfortable across the stack, he combines hands-on coding with technical leadership, shipping features while guiding teams on architecture and delivery. His background includes running production systems on AWS and Google Cloud/Kubernetes and fluency in data analysis workflows using Python. Nick’s career also includes an unusual four-year stint teaching in Japan, which informs his cross-cultural communication and mentoring style. He is pragmatic about fit—adept at Java-adjacent work but explicitly not a senior Java specialist—making him a strong match for roles emphasizing Rails, JS, and data-driven product development.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Political Science, BA, Political Science at DePaul UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at University of Illinois Springfield
Japanese, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (137)
test-kitchen10
testing10
form-validation10
javascript10
factories10
internationalization10
validation10
localization10
translation10
capybara10
vue10
discord10
css10
semantic10
frontend10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nickhall/Unity-Procedural
May 2014 - Oct 2018
Contributions:55 commits, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 4 years 6 months
nickhall/Process-Shutdown-Timer
Jul 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 1 push in 7 months
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