Nick Olinger
Staff Engineer at GoFundMe
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Olinger is a Staff Engineer in New York with 11 years building platform architecture, security, and developer tooling for high-traffic services. He has driven measurable performance and reliability improvements—such as reducing API p95 times and adding caching to handle traffic bursts—while bringing deep Node.js and TypeScript best practices to teams. Nick’s background spans payments, mobile, and e-commerce systems, and he has led automation, load-testing, and security standards at companies from startups to GoFundMe. An active open-source contributor, he’s contributed feature, test, and CLI improvements to notable projects like Yarn and the Entropic registry, showing a knack for practical tooling that improves developer workflows. He pairs hands-on engineering with hiring and cross-functional leadership, and has a long history of shipping reproducible staging/production environments and privacy-minded tooling for sensitive data.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Berea College
Japanese
Stackoverflow
493reputation
79kreached
18answers
6questions
Github Skills (24)
javascript10
npm10
testing10
test-framework10
yarnpkg10
nodejs10
package-manager10
cli10
jes9
authentication9
apidoc9
user-authentication9
jtest9
api9
jestjs9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
entropic-dev/entropic
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
🦝 :package: a package registry for anything, but mostly javascript 🦝 🦝 🦝
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 15 PRs, 123 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Nick focused on enhancing the command-line interface (CLI) for the project by adding testing and refactoring the "whoami" command. The user implemented unit tests using Ava and Sinon, integrating a fake API and logger for testing. They also made changes to the main application entry point and added API functionalities, as well as test user model and signup functionality, including remote authentication tests.
javascript
yarnpkg/yarn
Oct 2016 - Feb 2020
The 1.x line is frozen - features and bugfixes now happen on https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 33 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the Yarn package manager by implementing new features, enhancing test coverage, and fixing bugs. Their work includes adding validation to package names during initialization, expanding the test suite to cover alias functionalities, and correcting issues related to hosted Git repositories. Additionally, they modified the CLI by specifying depth to ls command and improved the output in certain scenarios.
yarnpkgyarnnpmpackage-managerjavascript
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