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 (50)
programming-language10
sublime-text10
neovim10
go10
golang10
nvim10
neovim-plugin10
visual-studio-extension9
epic8
sublime8
language-server-protocol8
webservice7
user-experience7
go-packages7
web-development6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nickhstr/dotfiles
Jul 2018 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 209 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 7 months
nickhstr/mk-3
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
Third version of my personal site. Very incomplete.
Contributions:6 PRs, 88 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 1 month
manuallinks
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