Nick Van Dyke
Staff Software Engineer at Polco
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Van Dyke is a Staff Software Engineer in Denver with a decade of experience building data-intensive, high-velocity platforms and developer tooling. He has driven major architecture and DevOps transformations at Polco—migrating CI/CD and apps to Docker on AWS, cutting infrastructure costs dramatically while improving reliability and team velocity. Nick blends full-stack expertise with systems thinking, shipping microservices, embeddable AI widgets, and accessibility-focused front-end migrations that improve both UX and developer experience. He’s also delivered production-grade mobile tooling and SDKs, rebuilt Android apps, and single-handedly stabilized acquired products into a company’s most-used offering. A hands-on mentor and team builder, he accelerates engineers through coaching and process improvements. Too curious for his own good, he balances rigorous technical depth with a playful love of cats.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (74)
sia10
kotlin-multiplatform10
storage10
android-app10
android10
cloud-storage10
sql9
state-machine9
window-manager9
tiling9
kotlin9
partitioning9
sqldelight9
typesafe8
blockchain8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
NickvanDyke/Sia-Android
May 2017 - Sep 2022
Android app for the decentralized cloud storage platform Sia
Contributions:8 releases, 647 commits, 17 PRs in 5 years 4 months
androiddecentralizedandroid-appcloud-storagestorage
NickvanDyke/Craigslist-Notifier
Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:10 releases, 58 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
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