Nick Hudkins
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
Parkton, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolNick Hudkins is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, user-focused systems across startups and major tech firms, currently at Airbnb after a multi-year tenure at AWS. He blends backend engineering expertise—demonstrated by notable contributions to the Scala GraphQL project Sangria—with product sensibility shaped by earlier front-end and UX roles. Nick has led engineering teams at MyFitnessPal and Under Armour, pairing hands-on coding with people and project management to deliver cross-console and consumer-facing features. His background in visual communication design and interactive development gives him an uncommon fluency for translating design intent into maintainable code. Comfortable navigating both legacy refactors and new-platform launches, he emphasizes maintainability and efficiency in large codebases. Based in Parkton, Maryland, he brings an entrepreneurial streak from founding a digital studio to contributing meaningfully in open-source ecosystems.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Visual Communication Design, Bachelor of Science, Visual Communication Design at Stevenson University (Formerly Villa Julie College)
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Github Skills (6)
graphql10
api10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
scala10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
sangria-graphql/sangria
Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
Scala GraphQL implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 10 commits, 16 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the Sangria GraphQL implementation, focusing on core backend functionalities. Their commits demonstrate expertise in Scala, with changes related to removing support for older versions, implementing lazy instantiation for Union types, and refactoring code. They also updated the project's dependencies and made various code improvements, suggesting a focus on maintainability and efficiency within the GraphQL framework.
graphqlscalasangriaapi
nickhudkins/preact-relay-playground
Feb 2017 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 push, 3 branches, 1 comment in 7 years 5 months
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