Nicolas Gryman
Entrepreneur at Indépendant
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolNicolas Gryman is a seasoned full-stack engineer based in Barcelona with 14 years of professional experience and two decades of hands-on software practice. He has held senior front-end and full-stack roles at companies like Zapier and Tractr, and has run his own freelance and entrepreneurial ventures, blending product thinking with pragmatic engineering. Nicolas contributes to open-source tools that improve developer ergonomics and performance—examples include enhancing reading-time estimation, server configs, and the Speedracer profiling tool—often focusing on refactors, testing, and maintainability. He favors simple, unobtrusive software that “you don't have to” wrestle with, demonstrated by work that adds stream support, better whitespace handling, and CLI-driven trace/reporting. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs frontend polish with backend robustness and a habit of improving developer workflows. His background in computer engineering and international studies gives him a practical, cross-disciplinary approach to shipping reliable, readable systems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
DUT, informatique, DUT, informatique at Université René Descartes (Paris V)International Master of Science, Computer engineering, Management, Economy, International Master of Science, Computer engineering, Management, Economy at SUPINFO - The International Institute of Information Technology
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
performance-monitor10
expressjs10
testing10
css10
server-configuration10
performance-testing10
stream-processing10
nodejs10
metric10
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http9
performance-analysis9
cli9
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
speedracer/speedracer
May 2017 - Jul 2022
Collect performance metrics for your library/application.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 112 commits, 21 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily focused on improving the performance and functionality of the application. They added features to display function profiling reports and supported Chrome's mainstream features. The user also refactored the code, implemented a compact reporter, and improved the execution flow of the performance runner. Additionally, the user introduced a mechanism to save traces and reports and added CLI flags to control functionality.
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ngryman/reading-time
Mar 2014 - Oct 2021
:books: Medium's like reading time estimation.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 8 reviews, 44 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the `reading-time` library. Their work involved refactoring code for improved readability and efficiency. They added support for streams, enhanced whitespace handling, and introduced the ability to customize words per minute. Additionally, they addressed linting issues, ensuring code quality and compatibility.
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