Nicolas Spragg
Developer at Umain
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Spragg is a Stockholm-based developer with 11 years of professional experience and a formal background in computer engineering from Queen's University. He has spent six transformative years at Storytel driving backend features that power personalized experiences—everything from emotion-aware rating systems and reading goals to cross-device bookshelf syncing and event-driven CRM. Nicolas pairs hands-on backend engineering with mobile-facing work, having directly contributed iOS code and performed regression testing for both iOS and Android to ensure end-to-end quality. As a crew coach he bridged technical and product stakeholders, led cross-disciplinary teams, and guided architectural decisions across Android, iOS, frontend and QA. Outside product work he contributes to open-source, notably modernizing a popular SQS consumer library by migrating it to ES6 classes and contemporary JavaScript patterns. Now at Umain, he brings a pragmatic blend of product-minded backend engineering and cross-platform delivery experience to new challenges.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at Queen's University
English, Swedish
Github Skills (7)
aws-sqs-fifo10
nodejs10
s610
polling10
javascript10
aws10
amazon-sqs10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/sqs-consumer
Dec 2017 - Nov 2020
Build Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) based applications without the boilerplate
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 80 commits, 46 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas's primary contributions focused on refactoring and modernizing the codebase of an SQS consumer library. They updated the code to use more modern JavaScript features like `const`, `let`, and lambda functions. Furthermore, the user migrated the project to ES6 classes, which improved the code's structure, and implemented other improvements to the project.
sqs-serviceboilerplatejavascriptserverlessaws-lambda
nspragg/file-js
Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
Abstract representation of a pathname
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 8 PRs in 6 months
representationpathnamejavascriptnodejs
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