Nick Plucker
Software Engineering Manager at Best Buy
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Plucker is a Software Engineer II and Technical Lead at Best Buy with nine years of hands-on experience building mobile and full‑stack solutions while mentoring teams and driving technical direction. A University of Minnesota Morris computer science student and former research assistant, he blends practical retail engineering with academic curiosity—having worked on evolutionary computation research and automation tooling. At Best Buy he progressed from intern to technical lead, contributing to production systems and shipping customer-facing applications. Comfortable across DevOps, mobile app development, and event tech setups, he brings a pragmatic, systems-minded approach and a knack for automating repetitive workflows to improve team velocity.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Minnesota Morris
Github Skills (41)
react-native9
ios9
android9
react9
cross-platform8
mobile8
mongodb6
app-framework6
stack-based6
mobile-development6
angular5
frontend5
genetic-programming5
sdk5
mobile-application5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
UMM-CSci-3601-F17/iteration-3-triscuit
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:11 PRs, 22 pushes, 5 branches in 12 days
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UMM-CSci-3601-F17/lab-2-client-server-architecture-with-java-spark-scoreker
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 7 branches, 39 issues in 15 days
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