Nico Hickman
Senior Software Engineer at Giftful
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNico Hickman is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building fast-to-market web platforms from architecture through delivery, currently leading Next.js/React development at Growl Technologies. He has shipped production-grade systems for cloud-hosted labs and large-scale video distribution, including SSO-backed auth, pure HTML5 remote desktop streaming, and session management features. Comfortable working independently in remote teams, he drives code reviews, triages merge conflicts, and manages work via GitHub and Trello to meet tight schedules. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced Rust CLI UX in the dialoguer project by adding paging and quit controls to selection prompts, showing attention to developer ergonomics beyond typical web work. Based in Bellingham, WA, he pairs practical engineering with hands-on delivery, often turning ambitious project timelines into working products in weeks rather than months.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Western Washington UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Cedarcrest High School
Github Skills (6)
command-line-interface10
rust10
lib10
cli10
command-line10
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
console-rs/dialoguer
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
Rust utility library for nice command line prompts and similar things
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nico primarily contributed to the `dialoguer` library, focusing on enhancing the `Select` and `Checkboxes` prompts. Their work involved adding paging functionality to these prompts, enabling the display of a large number of options. They also implemented features to allow users to quit the selection process via escape or 'q'. Furthermore, they addressed merge conflicts, indicating involvement in code integration and maintenance.
command-linerust
nicohman/ravenserver
Jul 2018 - Oct 2019
A server for uploading and downloading raven themes
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 3 months
downloadingthemesravenuploading
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