Nick Kasten
Senior Software Engineer at Technical Toolboxes
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Kasten is a Lead Software Engineer based in Austin, TX with 11 years of experience building full-stack JavaScript systems and production ML tooling. He has progressed from developer roles and developer advocacy at IBM to senior engineering at Upside and now leads engineering at an NDA startup, blending hands-on coding with team leadership. His background includes forecasting and ML work for restaurant labor/sales at HotSchedules and experience translating research prototypes into usable products. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and data workflows, he pairs a formal CS and applied math education with a pragmatic, continuous-learning mindset. Colleagues know him for smoothing cross-functional collaboration—an attribute honed early in customer-facing and developer-relations roles. He lives and codes in Austin, bringing both operational rigor and curiosity about emerging ML/IoT approaches to his teams.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Texas State UniversityFull Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampAssociate’s Degree Computer Science, Associate’s Degree Computer Science at Austin Community College
English
Github Skills (94)
github10
style-transfer10
node-red10
deep-learning10
javascript10
sentiment-analysis10
git10
typescript10
image-segmentation10
image-manipulation10
image-recognition10
user-interface10
frontend10
react10
ai9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CODAIT/node-red-contrib-model-asset-exchange
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Node-RED nodes for the Model Asset Exchange on IBM Developer
Contributions:152 commits, 36 PRs, 33 pushes in 3 months
node-rednode-red-contrib
vabarbosa/max-vis
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Visualization utilities for deep learning models.
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 month
deep-learningvisualization
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