Nick Hester
Full Stack Engineer at SAS
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Hester is a Full Stack Engineer with a decade of experience delivering reliable, maintainable systems across SaaS, logistics, blockchain, and game design. He’s shipped production software and led DevOps transformations at IBM, improving CI/CD, feature-branch workflows, and refactoring legacy logic into code-managed deployments. Comfortable across React, Node.js, C#, databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DB2), and Kubernetes/OpenShift, he bridges front-end polish with backend robustness and automation. Nick excels at mentoring and upskilling teams—raising QA coverage dramatically and running workshops to spread best practices. He also brings a creative edge from years prototyping games in Unity and turning QA roles into product-facing design contributions. Early experience teaching English in South Korea helped him develop clear, effective communication in diverse, international teams.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electronic Media English Minor, BS Electronic Media English Minor at Abilene Christian University
Github Skills (79)
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sublime-text10
golang10
textmate10
go10
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compiler9
nvim9
neovim9
neovim-plugin9
odin9
toc-generator8
visual-studio-extension8
lua8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nickhstr/dotfiles
Jul 2018 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 209 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 7 months
nickhstr/go-web-service
Aug 2018 - Jun 2020
Boilerplate Go web service.
Contributions:226 commits, 10 PRs, 165 pushes in 1 year 10 months
golangboilerplatefibergogo-boilerplate
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