Nik Baltatzis
Senior Software Engineer at T. Rowe Price
Parkville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNik Baltatzis is a senior software engineer with 11 years of professional experience who blends front-end craftsmanship with pragmatic full-stack and serverless skills to build accessible, high-quality user experiences. After a 15-year career as a computer science teacher, he transitioned to software development, bringing strong communication, mentorship, and process-first thinking to cross-functional teams. He specializes in React and TypeScript, state-machine-driven UIs, automated testing at all levels, and modern front-end tooling, and has implemented design systems, Storybook flows, and CI-driven component publishing. Nik also designs and deploys AWS serverless backends with infrastructure-as-code (AWS CDK) and integrates external APIs like Stripe via robust webhook handling. Known for turning ambiguous requirements into clear, testable products, he’s served as a liaison between platform and application teams and helped teams adopt best practices for Lit web components and reactive design. Based in Parkville, MD, he pairs a teacher’s patience with engineer’s rigor to drive predictable, maintainable delivery across product and platform boundaries.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.) Leadership in Teaching, Master of Arts (M.A.) Leadership in Teaching at Notre Dame of Maryland UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (21)
material-ui9
react9
material-design8
javascript8
react-components8
mui7
typescript7
server-side5
rendering5
server-side-rendering4
closures4
css3
elo2
saas2
aws-lambda2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
izzebot/WheelOfJeopardy
Aug 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
javajeopardywheel
nikzb/combo-lock
Mar 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 11 months
cssjavascriptcombinationlock
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