Nick The Sick
(he/him)Senior Full Stack Software Developer at Blocknote
Lead Software Engineer at BlockNote
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Career: 10
BlockNote
Rotterdam
- Architect & Design large refactors of the editor - Contribute back to other OSS projects like Tiptap, Prosemirror, Y.js and more
Tiptap
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
- Maintainer of Tiptap, a web-based rich text editor with 4.5M downloads a month - Ideated, designed and architected projects for execution by peers using proof of concepts - Managed all customer support issues, supported and led sales calls, answering technical questions
AgileMD
I play a pivotal role in a small, high-performing team that aims to standardize & improve patient care across hospital systems. My key achievements in my role at AgileMD include: - Led development and architecture of all (10+) front-end projects; assumed lead role for the area upon hiring another front-end engineer - On-boarding, training, and mentoring of new employees to quickly ramp up in front-end and back-end - Identified and optimized page load performance by over 400% resulting in P95 being under 2 seconds on legacy browsers (IE9) via back-end and front-end optimizations, and reducing bundle size by 20x - Drove operational excellence forward with technologies like TypeScript, Error tracing, Open-Telemetry tracing, Feature Flagging, OpenAPI Specifications, Webpack, and documented code style guides - Migrated ~100 repos into a single mono-repo, unifying project configuration and build steps, reducing release and code complexity, cutting development time by at least 33% for cross repository features - Defined and built automated CI/CD pipelines and processes for deployments and release management - Consistently drove tech debt down while adding value, net deleting more code than added over 5 years (6M+ lines added, 7M+ lines deleted) In this multifaceted role, I have not only advanced the technical aspects of our projects but also prioritized user and developer satisfaction, along with operational excellence. This experience has significantly contributed to my professional growth.
AgileMD
- Rebuilding a complex authorization and authentication system for scalability of the company - Migrating fundamental organization models into a new system, requiring custom migration tooling - Developing a UI admin dashboard for management of complex hospital systems - permissions, content management, auditing - Spearheaded a design system for consistency in UX & DX, using React, TypeScript and SCSS Modules, shortening development time of new front-end projects by at least 50% - Implement tooling around linting and formatting and writing code style guides - Modernizing legacy React applications involving complicated refactors for improved velocity in the future
AgileMD
- Contribute quality code to aid in the development of an EHR integrated web application - Develop a web app interface to a low-code runtime and configuration tool - Use various techniques to develop attractive UIs in a very constrained environment (Internet Explorer 8)
Cerebra LLC
- Architected and developed Vue.js frontend and NUXT.js backend for IT MDM device management SaaS - Led technical direction and decision-making as the lead engineer within the startup - Implemented and maintained admin interface, leveraging frontend expertise to streamline UX
Vimbly
Worked with a medium-sized team to develop a website for a high-end South Korean fashion brand. My primary focus encompassed the seamless design and implementation of the authentication and sign-up flows, ensuring a user-friendly and secure online experience.
Budgetwise.io
Revamp an existing React web application to enhance both performance and readability. Incorporate visually engaging animations to elevate the overall user experience. Provide innovative solutions for integrating new features into a production budgeting website.
Upwork
Developer for UpWork.com a freelance website. Various jobs such as writing scrapers, developing websites and web apps, making fixes to other websites and other small jobs.
DressCodeRules.com, Inc.
Web Developer at DressCodeRules.com, the Internet’s only centralized dress code authority. Advertising (including SEO and traffic generation) I built & maintained scrapers of products from other websites, built internal tooling to categorize products faster than existing Wordpress plugins.
Projects: 2
A collaborative document editing framework. Allowing for real-time experiences like Google Docs, Notion & Figma - edit the same document in real-time with other collaborators
A Goodreads alternative built on Bluesky's protocol ATProto
Talks & sessions: 1
The Design Philosophy of BookHive
10 min · developers
About how I designed the lexicon and storage system to maximize user-agency in a world where we are being more limited than ever.
Publications: 7
Road to a book lexicon (Part 2)
nick-the-sick.pckt.blog
Road to a book lexicon (Part 1)
nick-the-sick.pckt.blog
Don't mark AI generated content as fake
nick-the-sick.pckt.blog
nick-the-sick.pckt.blog
The Design Philosophy of BookHive
nick-the-sick.pckt.blog
nick-the-sick.pckt.blog
Teleportal: A real-time collaborative editing framework
nick-the-sick.pckt.blog
Skills: 39
Technical
Other
Credentials: 2
Triplebyte Certified Front End Engineer
Triplebyte
Triplebyte certified Front End Engineer
Triplebyte
Education: 1
Associate of Arts (AA)
I worked to receive an AA while still in high school by taking my high school and college courses at the same time throughout the last two years of high school.
Languages: 2
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