# Nicholas Hess

> Startup Software Engineer

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nicholashess

## Work Experience
### Founding Software Engineer @ NAMELESS
Jan 2025 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Lead Software Engineer @ Optum
Jan 2018 – Jan 2025 | Greater Boston Area
Worked as a Technical Lead for a large scale, multi-team project. We use the agile methodology and leverage modern technologies to create scalable, innovative, and inspiring solutions for our end users. I work on development tasks across the full stack as well as help to solution the future technical and architectural direction of the application

### Codecademy Advisor @ Codecademy
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
Worked as part of a remote team of Advisors to support students learning new programming languages and concepts through the Codecademy platform. Students who were struggling to complete an exercise or project would send a question to the team and advisors would choose questions they felt confident in assisting with.

Once a question was chosen I would enter a 1-on-1 chat with the student and support them as they worked to solve their issue. We were given a live look at their workspace in order help identify and work through syntax and logic errors to help solve their problem.

The primary focus was helping the student come to a solution on their own by asking them questions and reinforcing concepts their course had been teaching. I strived to foster a sense of accomplishment in the students and to further their ability to debug and think critically about the code they were writing.


## Education
### Computer Science
Colgate University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicholas-hess-a4720a123

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Last updated: 2026-03-28