Nick Speal
California Governor's Board Appointee at TAHOE TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT
South Lake Tahoe, California, United States
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Top SchoolNick Speal is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and robotics systems, currently serving as a California Governor's Board appointee focused on regional transportation governance. At Zipline he developed the flight-planning tools and led the Maps Pipelines team, organizing the geospatial data that enables safe medical drone deliveries to remote clinics worldwide. He combines hands-on engineering (Python, Flask, PostGIS, React, Cesium) with cross-disciplinary project leadership, having shipped consumer drones at scale and led large student robotics teams for lunar and underwater competitions. Locally active in civic tech and housing advocacy, he co-founded a nonprofit that qualified a ballot initiative and serves on planning bodies to improve housing and transit in the Lake Tahoe region. Known for persevering through shifting priorities, he prioritizes abundant, organized communication and pragmatic solutions that bridge hardware, mapping, and user-facing software. An uncommon thread in his career is translating complex physical-system constraints into maintainable web tools that operationalize robotics at scale.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Bayview GlenB.Eng. Mechanical Engineering, B.Eng. Mechanical Engineering at McGill University
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
user-interface10
declarative10
frontend10
react10
nim-lang9
typescript9
sqlalchemy8
zeal8
playing8
ats8
spotify-api8
near7
routes7
python7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nickspeal/musicThisWeek
Mar 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 113 commits, 25 PRs in 2 years 7 months
spotifynodejsplaylistweb-servicespotify-api
nickspeal/nickspeal.github.io
Aug 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
nickreact
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