Nick Patti

Software Engineer: Front-End

Remote (West Coast, United States)

Skills

Software Engineer

2020 - 2021

Replaced deprecated components for user management software with modern UI components, improving the user experience and security for customers of ESPN, National Geographic, Disney Parks, and more.
Coordinated with mobile development teams to build a bridge between the web authentication application and native Android applications. Teams saved months of effort by unifying the user management platform.

Web Development Engineer

2016 - 2019

Replaced slow fulfillment workflow application with a client-side task orchestration framework. This software sent less requests, loaded faster, and was more responsive to user interaction, improving the user experience for fulfillment associates all around the world.
Built over 50 responsive, animating UI components, which rendered smoothly on all screen sizes and old hardware, saving millions of dollars on replacing technology.
Created a badge scanner login process for fulfillment associates. By scanning a badge instead of typing credentials, associates could log in and start their workday in a tenth of the time.
Documented a process to test software changes directly on fulfillment devices. Bugs that were not identifiable in device emulators were caught and removed before changes went live.
Replaced end-of-life, custom JavaScript build software with community standard tools, reducing build times from minutes to seconds, positively impacting the development experience and software deployments.
Communicated with UX designers, product managers, and software engineers to define technical requirements for large scale projects.

Software Engineer and Founder

2014 - 2016

Developed a robust tournament management web application, handling player sign ups, scheduling, and placements. Used in weekly local tournaments, and national tournaments at Gen Con.
Added features to the tournament management interface, including drag-and-drop player assignments. Feedback from tournament organizers was positive, citing easier match and score assignments.
Created a live-updating leader-board, improving the tournament experience by immediately notifying users of table changes and celebrating player accomplishments.

Software Engineer

2022 - Present

Created a resume building web application, which was used to build this document! Fine-tuning a resume to match job application requirements is about 10 times faster than editing a word document by hand.
Automated deployments using GitHub CI/CD pipelines. Changes are tested, built, and deployed in under two minutes.

Software Engineer (Go)

2023 - 2023

Designed, built, and released Sweet, a command line touch typing game for software engineers written in Go. Since using it, my coding typing speed has increased by 10 words per minute.
Sweet has a start up time that is at least 100 times faster than popular web based touch-typing games. (monkeytype.com: 2.0s, speedtyper.net: 1.7s, Sweet: 17ms)

Android Engineer

2021 - 2022

Created Android Jetpack Compose application that helps users manage their time. Using this application, I've managed about 360 hours of my time to help improve my focus.
Created issue templates to simplify issue and bug reporting. Used GitHub Projects and Issues to manage user stories and sprints. Improved communication with users, and documentation for developers.
Released the Time Clock application to both Google Play and F-Droid marketplaces, and used Fastlane to quickly deploy updates to both marketplaces.

Android Engineer

2021 - 2021

Built a custom, interactive tournament bracket view, allowing tournament organizers to quickly identify and navigate to matches on their mobile devices.

Game Director

2013 - 2014

Directed a team of game designers, programmers, artists, musicians, and sound designers to create a cooperative mutliplayer PC game using the Unity game engine.

Master of Science

Games and Playable Media

2013 - 2014

Bachelor of Science

Computer Science: Computer Game Design

2008 - 2013