Summary
Nick Violi is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building full-stack, data-informed web applications and interfaces from concept to production. With a MS in Computer Science from University of Maryland, he blends information visualization, social network analysis, and ML-informed thinking with pragmatic skills in Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL and UX-focused front-end work. He currently leads engineering at Arc XP and previously spent over a decade applying engineering for social impact at GlobalGiving, pairing product craft with quantitative analysis. Known for clear technical writing and project leadership, he moves fluidly between prototyping visualizations and shipping robust production systems. An adventurous mindset—evident from a yearlong world travel project he documented end-to-end—fuels his curiosity for human-centered, data-driven design.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
B.S., Mathematics, Computer Science, B.S., Mathematics, Computer Science at Bates College