Nick Howlett
Software Engineer at Harvey
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Howlett is a pragmatic software engineer with eight years of full‑stack experience building and scaling web products across TypeScript/Node.js/React and backend systems in Python and Ruby on Rails. At Lively he progressed from individual contributor to senior engineer leading cross‑functional squads, driving architecture, performance optimizations (95th‑percentile load reduced from 8s to 2.5s), and complex migrations involving financial partners. He designs resilient integrations—everything from bulk HSA transfer pipelines with rate‑limiting and retry logic to AI‑assisted OCR claims processing—and helps shape frontend standards adopted company‑wide. Based in the Bay Area, he pairs a psychology honors degree and CS minor with hands‑on teaching experience, bringing user‑centered thinking and mentorship to engineering problems. Outside work he’s an avid trail runner, reader of speculative fiction, and a student of Japanese—habits that inform his curiosity for novel technical challenges.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The College Preparatory SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA Psychology Honors. Computer Science Minor, Bachelor of Arts - BA Psychology Honors. Computer Science Minor at University of ChicagoFull-Stack Development, Full-Stack Development at App Academy
Japanese
Github Skills (15)
django8
world-of-warcraft8
expressjs7
python7
mern7
azerothcore6
react5
mongodb5
nodejs5
game-engine4
full-stack4
visualize4
discord-js2
discord2
discord-bot2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Nick-Howlett/Trigonometry-Wars
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:75 commits, 91 pushes, 6 branches in 28 days
Nick-Howlett/Sherwood
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:141 commits, 168 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
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