Nick Nissen is a pragmatic full-stack developer with 13 years of experience building web applications across PHP, Python, JavaScript and .NET, currently developing at Uptime Development A/S in Fredericia. He combines backend expertise in databases and APIs with front-end skills in AngularJS and Vue, and has contributed meaningful open-source improvements—such as refactoring and reusable components for the popular vue-chartjs wrapper and adding media embedding features to textAngular. His background includes production work with Flask, MongoDB/MySQL and Node.js, plus earlier C#/.NET and SignalR projects, reflecting comfort across stacks and deployment scenarios. Educated in Computer Science with a focus on databases and mobile development, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset and a track record of turning legacy code into maintainable, testable systems. Notably, his open-source contributions emphasize maintainability and developer ergonomics rather than flashy features, making him a reliable collaborator on long-lived codebases.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
HTX, IT/Communication, HTX, IT/Communication at EUC Syd
Computer Science(AP), Database, Mobile development, Computer Science(AP), Database, Mobile development at Erhvervsakademiet Lillebælt
A radically powerful Text-Editor/Wysiwyg editor for Angular.js! Create multiple editor instances, two-way-bind HTML content, watch editors for changes and more!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 15 PRs, 1 push in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the `textangular` repository by fixing bugs and implementing new features related to image resizing and YouTube video embedding within the text editor. The commits show modifications to the core JavaScript files, including the `textAngularSetup.js` and `main.js`, adding the functionality for handling YouTube links. The changes included the creation of the `extractYoutubeVideoId` function, as well as updates to the testing suite to confirm the functionality.
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 6 days
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the `vue-chartjs` library by refactoring code and extracting common functionalities into reusable components. They modified existing examples, integrated mixins, and updated the build process to define a global version. The user's changes included creating distributable files and integrating package information to ensure the library's proper functioning and maintainability.
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