Nick Mai
Software Engineer at Worldly
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNick Mai is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building web and backend systems across the SF Bay Area, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen. Currently at Worldly in San Francisco, he has a track record of contributing to startups and product-focused engineering roles from frontend work to backend optimization. His open-source contributions include performance-focused JavaScript utilities—adding shuffle algorithms and "turbo" arithmetic functions that favor speed over safety—highlighting a pragmatic, performance-minded approach. Comfortable across the full stack, he combines practical engineering with international product experience and a Computer Science foundation from West Valley College.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at West Valley College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
git10
algorithms10
javascript10
github10
performance-optimization10
intellij-idea9
android-studio9
http6
html6
socket-io6
ios6
nodejs6
swift6
mongodb6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Rabrennie/anything.js
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
A javascript library that contains anything.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 2 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the implementation of JavaScript functions within the `anything.js` library. They added a shuffle algorithm and a series of "turbo" functions for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The turbo functions focus on speed optimization by limiting arguments and omitting safety checks. The user also seems to have some design input in this project as well.
javascript
nmai/livedb
Sep 2015 - Dec 2019
A database frontend for concurrent editing systems
Contributions:6 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 3 months
editingdatabasefrontendconcurrent
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