Nick Singleton
Senior Software Engineer at Kraken
Arlington, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Singleton is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack applications and founding startups, currently based in Arlington, Texas and working at Kraken. He brings a strong TypeScript and types-first mindset, evidenced by significant contributions to the high-profile DefinitelyTyped repository where he modernized and tightened type definitions for widely used libraries. Nick's background spans founding and scaling Flokkr, leading engineering work at Cloud Under Ltd and webguerillas, and hands-on work across front-end, back-end, and DevOps stacks. He combines pragmatic engineering with an entrepreneur’s eye for product and reliability, frequently upgrading dependencies and enforcing stricter types to prevent runtime issues. Comfortable in both startup and larger company contexts, he favors shipping clean, maintainable code that reduces friction for other developers. His interdisciplinary education in Intermedia/Multimedia gives him a user-focused perspective that informs his engineering decisions.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Intermedia/Multimedia, Intermedia/Multimedia at Technische Hochschule Augsburg
English, German
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Github Skills (19)
typesc10
typescript10
type-definition10
type-system10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
javascript9
mongodb-database9
cocoapods9
mongodb9
xcode6
android-studio6
mmap6
php6
android6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 14 commits, 3 PRs in 26 days
Contributions summary:Nick's contributions primarily involved updating and enhancing type definitions within the `definitelytyped/definitelytyped` repository. They upgraded dependencies, such as `xxhashjs` and `supercluster`, and ensured type safety by implementing stricter types. Additionally, the user fixed and reformed type definitions, including updates to the `mongodb` package, to satisfy code style guidelines and improve the overall quality of the type definitions.
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CloudUnder/mac-signature-installer
Nov 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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