# Nicholas Case

> Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nicholascase

Full-stack web software engineer experienced with Javascript, Java, Golang, C++, Ruby, and SQL. Shipped code in Ember, React, Angular, Express, and Rails.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
The social network for job seekers, professionals, and businesses with over 1 billion members and counting

• Led countless feature deliveries from ideation to production and maintenance, usually spanning multiple teams and other business units 
• Delivered extremely time sensitive functionality to successfully launch a group of half a million new accounts within a short time window
• Led implementation and adoption of a horizontal initiative across the Learning business unit to improve product experience monitoring, including shaping architecture decisions on another team's offering
• Involved in a small research group to identify ways to improve and standardize company-wide data visualization efforts

### Senior Software Engineer @ Science Exchange
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
The world’s leading R&D services marketplace platform, enabling research organizations to broker scientific experiments and goods in a fraction of the time 
						 	 
• Architected proposals for how to improve a mature legacy application and give it a backend refresh
• Delivered critical pieces of financial functionality streamlining the accounting team’s workflows drastically

### Senior Software Engineer @ Rakuten Marketing
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
E-commerce giant based in Japan with offices worldwide

• Lead developer on a standalone full stack application used for our high stakes financial services clients, necessitating that the code be correct, always up, and scalable
• Learned several new frameworks and languages in a production setting with very little turnaround time before being able to deliver
• Established organization-wide best practices for integration testing our applications with a small group of team leads
• Responsible for maintenance of legacy code in several projects as well as continued feature build-out in currently supported applications for our affiliate marketing services
• Continued developing on personal projects to hone skills, including a Java ORM

### Software Engineer @ Equal Opportunity Schools
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Greater Seattle Area
Non-profit organization whose mission is to empower underprivileged high achievers, participating in outreach activities geared towards enrollment in upper level courses and ultimately, college

• Continued build-out as the main application developer of internal tools that were a product of the year-long contract phase, of which I was also a part
• Created internally-facing portal from scratch with a small team, most facets of which demand a high level of forethought and planning surrounding system architecture, with a heavy emphasis on performance
• Went far beyond simple CRUD and MVC to deliver a set of tools to the EOS analyst team allowing them simple access to raw data, manipulate it, and visualize it as they see fit, as well as interfaces to assist them in tracking their own outreach activities

### Teaching Assistant @ Code Fellows
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Served as a sub-instructor for the same immersive bootcamp-style Ruby on Rails course that I had taken previously

• Assisted Ruby on Rails course instructors with duties related to course management, grading student submissions, and fielding student problems/questions
• Stepped up to help the Code Fellows development team with production changes to the organization's Ruby on Rails-based website
• Gave mini-lectures on topics such as fixtures, setting up a proper integration test suite with Minitest and Capybara, and Ruby sorting algorithms
• Pioneered the whiteboard curriculum for the Ruby on Rails class, administering all student challenges and providing coaching in object-oriented and functional Ruby programming
• Attended an alumni panel to help continue to guide students in preparing for technical interviews and challenges

### Student @ Code Fellows
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Attended a Ruby on Rails immersive course centered around best practices, culminating in a well-stocked web development toolkit and code samples visible on GitHub


## Education
### Bootcamp in Ruby on Rails
Code Fellows
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Political Science and Government
University of Washington
Jan 2004 – Jan 2008


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/casenicholas
- GitHub: https://github.com/SupahNickie
- Website: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4kmveOI_IiUamlrQXRDNWtELWc/edit?usp=sharing

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Last updated: 2026-03-22