Nick Senger
Senior Software Engineer, Backend at SynchroTales
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolNick Senger is a senior backend software engineer and startup CTO with 10 years of experience building distributed systems, cross-platform client applications, and lab informatics. Based in Oakland, he blends hands-on engineering with leadership roles—from managing engineering teams at Kraken to co-founding SynchroTales—while currently contributing backend expertise at Second Spectrum. He brings a research-rooted perspective (M.S. in Chemistry) to product engineering, which helps him navigate complex domains like LIMS and data-heavy systems. An active open-source contributor, Nick has made substantive fixes and feature additions to iced, a notable Rust GUI library, showing deep understanding of component internals and rendering. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous requirements into robust, maintainable systems that span front-end interactions to scalable back-end services.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Chemistry, Master’s Degree, Chemistry at University of WashingtonBachelor’s Degree, Biochemistry, Bachelor’s Degree, Biochemistry at San Francisco State University
English
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Github Skills (13)
react-components10
user-interface10
component-kit10
rust10
windows-gui10
widgets10
render10
react-component10
rendering10
elm9
graphic8
arcgis6
react6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
iced-rs/iced
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 31 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Nick primarily worked on the `iced-rs/iced` repository, a Rust GUI library. Their contributions focused on enhancing component functionality, enabling overlay features, and fixing layout-related issues. They implemented and refined core components such as the `Component` and `Lazy` widgets, demonstrating a deep understanding of the library's internal structure and event handling mechanisms. The user's work resulted in resolving rendering problems and adding features.
elmrustguigraphicsinterface
nicksenger/synchrotron-prototype
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
PWA for synchronizing audio to text
Contributions:34 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
audio
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