Nick Hess
Staff Technical Lead Manager at Peloton Interactive
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolNick Hess is a staff technical lead manager with 11 years of experience building and scaling web platforms, currently shaping Peloton’s Web Platform roadmap and architecture while remaining an active contributor and mentor. He has driven measurable impact through projects like migrating a GraphQL gateway to a federated architecture (eliminating schema incidents), creating self-service order features to reduce support load, and implementing a DORA-based frontend release process that halved lead time. Prior roles span full-stack improvements, TypeScript migrations that cut production bugs by 80%, and performance refactors that improved time-to-interactive by 30%, reflecting a pragmatic focus on developer velocity and user outcomes. Based in Denver, he combines hands-on engineering with team-building and process design, and brings a background in media and information from Michigan State University that informs his product-forward technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate Media and Information, Undergraduate Media and Information at Michigan State University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (58)
javascript10
vercel10
storybook10
static-site-generator10
typescript10
nextjs10
browser10
server-rendering10
react-framework10
ssg10
front-end-development10
compiler10
hybrid10
react10
web-development-tools9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hessnd/dotfiles
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:33 commits, 137 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
hessnd/nick-hess-dev
Apr 2019 - Aug 2024
My ish
Contributions:2 PRs, 48 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 5 months
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