Nick Little
Data Engineer
Altoona, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Little is a Data Engineer and technical leader with a decade of experience delivering reliable, scalable software across startups and established firms, now focused on data solutions at Pella Corporation. He began his career in automated testing and is a strong advocate of TDD, which informs his emphasis on quality, validation, and maintainable systems. Nick has led multi-team engineering efforts, introduced feature-flag driven rollouts, and built customer-facing web and mobile tools for manufacturing and field operations. He pairs hands-on backend work (Go, Elixir, Python, Rust contributions) with stakeholder-facing product alignment, often translating complex integration needs into practical architectures using AWS, Terraform, and GraphQL. An open-source contributor to the Rust-based Boa JavaScript engine, he’s tackled core JSON serialization and parsing edge cases—illustrating a knack for deep, correctness-oriented engineering. Based in Altoona, Iowa, he combines technical coaching and performance management with a continual curiosity for new languages and systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Grand View University
Spanish
Github Skills (12)
json10
javascript10
rust10
javascript-engine10
interpreter10
ecmascript10
crate9
rust-crates9
parserator9
parser9
unit-testing8
webassembly7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
boa-dev/boa
May 2020 - May 2021
Boa is an embeddable and experimental Javascript engine written in Rust. Currently, it has support for some of the language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 11 PRs, 76 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the `boa-dev/boa` JavaScript engine, focusing on improving its JSON stringify functionality. They implemented features like JSON replacer, handling of undefined, function, and symbol values, and correct enumeration. The user also worked on handling JSON parsing, including setting prototypes and ensuring proper enumeration of fields. Their work demonstrates a strong focus on the core functionality of the JavaScript engine related to JSON serialization and deserialization.
javascript-engineboarustjavascriptruntime
n14little/boa
May 2020 - May 2021
Boa is an embeddable and experimental Javascript engine written in Rust. Currently, it has support for some of the language.
Contributions:72 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year
javascript-engineboarustjavascriptwebassembly
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