Nick Welch
Senior Software Engineer at Boulder Care
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolNick Welch is a Senior Software Engineer with 22 years of hands-on experience building web and systems software for startups and growth-stage companies, currently driving engineering work at Boulder Care from Portland, Oregon. He thrives in collaborative, high-learning teams and brings a pragmatic, product-focused mindset to problems that scale across users and services. Nick’s background spans full-stack development, Linux administration, and test engineering, reflecting roles from freelance sysadmin to senior developer at firms like Parthenon and TreeTop Commons. An active tinkerer, his GitHub archives include a cross-language refactor of tinywm—demonstrating both low-level systems chops and a taste for elegant minimalism. He seeks mission-driven work that tackles big human problems while elevating team performance and delighting end users.
22 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, General Studies at Eastern Iowa Community College
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Github Skills (16)
c1710
window-management10
x1110
c1110
computer-engineering10
python9
git6
imagemagick6
genetic-algorithm6
filesystem6
javascript6
keybindings6
jquery6
genetic-programming6
keyboard6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mackstann/tinywm
Jan 2005 - Apr 2014
The tiniest window manager.
Role in this project:
Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:45 commits, 1 issue in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the development of TinyWM, a minimal X window manager. Their contributions involved refactoring the code, fixing bugs related to window moving and resizing, and adapting it to work with Python. They modified the C code and also provided a Python implementation demonstrating their focus on enhancing the functionality and usability of the window manager across different languages. The user also updated the documentation.
linuxwindowwindow-manager
mackstann/whimsy
Mar 2008 - Aug 2013
Contributions:168 commits in 5 years 6 months
pythonlinuxwindowhackablewindow-manager
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