Nick Quinlan
Executive Director at Nick Coaches
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNick Quinlan is a people-centered executive with 14 years of experience scaling mission-driven tech organizations and developer communities. Currently Executive Director of Washington Business Week, he combines operational rigor with hands-on engineering roots—having contributed to SendGrid’s PHP library and MLH’s Localhost workshop—to build systems that genuinely serve people. He spent a decade at Major League Hacking growing programs to reach 100,000+ student hackers and helped steer MLH as COO (and briefly interim CEO), proving he can translate grassroots community needs into sustainable operations. A former developer evangelist and technical writer, Nick blends public-facing developer marketing with backend engineering chops and a knack for making complex processes less brittle. He also coaches emerging leaders, bringing both strategic experience and a practitioner’s empathy to help others accelerate their careers.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Business Management, B.A. Business Management at Western Washington University
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Github Skills (38)
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markdown-it10
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nodejs9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sendgrid/docs
Jul 2013 - Apr 2015
Repository of Twilio SendGrid's product documentation.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:370 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the documentation of the SendGrid documentation repository. The commits focused on enhancing the documentation by addressing typos, improving clarity, and adding code examples. The changes included updating and correcting existing documentation, such as the API reference pages.
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MLH/mlh-localhost-github
Feb 2021 - May 2021
This repo contains the source code for the MLH Localhost workshop, How to Collaborate on Code Projects with GitHub.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the front-end and backend aspects of the project. They updated the application to run as a serverless application. Further contributions include updating the UI for subdirectory use, and modifying both the frontend and backend to work correctly. They made locations less brittle, likely indicating improvements to the location retrieval and display logic, and merged different branches.
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