Nick Passarella
Product & Engineering at Stealth Startup
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolNick Passarella is a product-minded engineering leader with 11+ years of software development experience and over six years of leading cross-functional teams, currently building product and engineering at a stealth startup from Durham, NC. He has a proven track record of improving developer experience and delivery—driving zero-downtime rewrites in Next.js and Hasura, codifying design systems for faster handoffs, and implementing serverless/edge patterns to boost reliability without adding SRE overhead. Nick excels as a player-coach, hiring and mentoring remote teams while translating product requirements into pragmatic engineering work. He combines hands-on frontend and mobile experience (React, React Native) with backend and infrastructure pragmatism, and has repeatedly reduced cycle time through CI/CD and build pipeline improvements. An economist by training, he brings a data-informed, systems-thinking approach to balancing product velocity, developer productivity, and operational quality.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Economics at East Carolina University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (116)
browser10
rich-text10
editors10
minify10
javascript9
wysiwyg9
slim9
seccomp9
rte9
nextjs9
contenteditable9
react9
rich-text-editor9
text-editor9
draft-js9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lunchpad/lunchpad
Nov 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:247 commits, 7 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 1 month
ruby-on-railsironrailsiron-yardruby
nickpassarella/express-graphql-server
Dec 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
eggheadfollowinggraphql-servernodejsgraphql
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