Nick Melhado
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
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Nick Melhado is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with seven years of full-stack experience building user-focused web products at scale, now improving privacy and settings experiences on Facebook using Hack, React, GraphQL, and Relay. He has a strong background migrating and modernizing legacy systems—having moved Ruby monoliths to Go microservices at FreeWheel—and consistently reduces cognitive complexity while shipping features. Nick combines product sensibility from running creative agencies and 3D/virtual-tour startups with engineering rigor, which shows in his open-source work like a polished Sleeper fantasy football league page that added dark mode, playoff brackets, and clearer transaction ordering. Comfortable leading projects and mentoring engineers, he pairs cross-functional collaboration with hands-on delivery. His blend of design-minded product work and backend modernization makes him adept at improving both developer velocity and end-user experience.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
American Overseas School of RomeCertificate, Certificate at Fullstack AcademyBachelor of Science (BS), Economics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Economics at The George Washington UniversityPoly Prep Country Day SchoolAmerican School of Paris
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api8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nmelhado/league-page
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Create a custom league page for your Sleeper fantasy football league!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:155 commits, 211 PRs, 368 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Nick contributed significantly to the codebase by refactoring the `leagueAwards` and `leagueTransactions` modules, reducing complexity and improving code maintainability. They also introduced features, such as flexible brackets for playoffs, the option to select "Sleeper" as a preferred contact method in the manager configuration, and the integration of a dark mode. Furthermore, the user implemented the playoff brackets and updated the page to show correct standings and correct transaction ordering.
sleepersleeper-fantasy-footballsleeper-fantasy-apifootballleague
FSA-Capstone/FridgeRaiderWeb
Nov 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:27 PRs, 30 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
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