Nick Johnson
Senior Software Engineer - Growth at CoderPad
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Johnson is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in front-end architecture, UI component libraries, and design systems, currently driving growth engineering at CoderPad from Huntsville, Alabama. He has a track record of modernizing legacy stacks—migrating Angular.js and Razor apps into componentized, hooks-based React systems, introducing TypeScript and Storybook, and shipping polished Chrome extensions and enterprise SPAs. Nick blends hands-on refactoring with developer-experience improvements and mentorship, codifying standards that balance type safety with readability. He’s built and documented large component libraries (100+ mobile-first components) and has guided cross-functional teams on design-system paradigms to accelerate product velocity. Outside work he studies Japanese and philosophy, reflecting a habit of disciplined, deliberate learning that informs his thoughtful approach to product and code.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.40, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.40 at University of Alabama in Huntsville
English, Japanese
Github Skills (57)
synthesis10
tree-structure10
music-sequencer10
material-ui10
tonejs10
music10
react10
testing9
javascript9
react-components9
webpack9
typescript9
vue9
computer-music9
midi9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nickjohnson-dev/api-adapter
Feb 2017 - Aug 2020
Decouple the shape of your data on the client and server
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 3 years 6 months
decouple
aria-app/aria-ui
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Component library for the Aria organization
Contributions:30 releases, 2 reviews, 51 PRs in 2 months
reacttypescriptcomponent-libraryaria
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