Nick Holden
Software Engineer at PlanetScale
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolNick Holden is a product-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-facing and user-facing systems, currently at PlanetScale after recent roles at WorkOS, Campsite, Stripe, GitHub, and Tuple. He primarily ships Ruby and TypeScript code, has deep Rails experience, and has contributed to platform features like AuthKit, enterprise integrations, and Dashboard surfaces. As Campsite’s first engineer he helped define the company’s architecture and mentoring culture, and at WorkOS delivered key authentication and analytics integrations used by other developers. He thrives on shipping quickly, gathering feedback, and iterating—balancing pragmatic product instincts with solid engineering craft. Based in San Diego, he maintains a public portfolio at nickholden.io and brings a communicator’s background to cross-functional collaboration and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Communication, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Communication at Boston University
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Github Skills (200)
cms10
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github10
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bem10
microfrontend10
ruby10
font-size10
prosemirror10
wysiwyg10
infrastructure10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nholden/nickholdenio2
Oct 2017 - Mar 2025
My portfolio site
Contributions:19 PRs, 100 pushes, 18 branches in 7 years 6 months
javascriptreact
nholden/mit_course_catalog_parser
Jun 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
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