# Nicholas Meriano

> Staff Software Engineer at Brightwheel | Frontend Architecture · AI-Driven Development · Developer Tooling

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

I'm a staff software engineer with 8+ years building web applications at scale. Currently at Brightwheel, where I own end-to-end product delivery — from design through production — in a React/TypeScript monorepo serving thousands of early education programs.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ brightwheel
Jan 2025 – Present | San Diego, CA
Own end-to-end frontend delivery across product features, developer infrastructure, and AI-driven development workflows in Brightwheel's React/TypeScript monorepo. Lead complex, time-sensitive launches — managing parallel projects, coordinating cross-pod delivery, and shipping features from concept to production.

Key contributions:
• Pioneered AI-driven feature development — delivered the company's first fully AI-built feature, cutting MVP delivery time by 50%
• Tripled frontend deploy frequency (5 → 15+ deploys/week) through a major deployment pipeline overhaul
• Won the 2025 AI Hackathon — built a typed OpenAPI client that became the standard integration pattern
• Led the Admissions launch sprint — managed 3 parallel projects with 5 FE engineers within a 4-week deadline
• Architected Feature Flags V2 with backwards-compatible migration, enabling zero-downtime platform-wide rollout
• Built internal dev-tools suite adopted as the standard QA workflow across the frontend team
• Created cross-discipline FE/Design sync meetings, improving collaboration and design system adoption

### Senior Software Engineer, Frontend @ brightwheel
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led frontend feature delivery across Brightwheel's React/TypeScript monorepo, shipping multiple complex projects from spec to production while driving process improvements and cross-team collaboration.

Key contributions:
• Led Incident Reports frontend across 3 interdependent milestones, coordinating delivery across backend dependencies
• Built the full admissions packet system end-to-end — fees, payments, guardian workflows, and e2e tests across 3 pods
• Launched Activities, Calendar, and Attendance on the web platform for the first time
• Led Fillable PDFs frontend — POC'd an alternative approach that replaced the original design direction
• Created and hosted bi-weekly FE/Design sync meetings, improving cross-discipline collaboration
• Built internal dev-tools for session debugging, feature flag overrides, and environment switching

### Software Engineer @ Ephesoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led frontend development across Ephesoft's AI-powered document processing products. Built and maintained component libraries, improved CI/CD pipelines, and architected client-side systems.

Key contributions:
• Led frontend development of AI Lab, a customer-facing tool used to demo ML models and drive enterprise sales
• Designed and published an official UI component library and style guide adopted across all teams
• Migrated test infrastructure to JSDOM and Cypress, reducing deployment time by ~40%
• Architected client-side RBAC system for user roles and permissions across all Angular applications
• Instrumented all applications with New Relic observability — custom dashboards and alerts for proactive monitoring
• Mentored junior developers and hosted weekly frontend architecture meetings

### Web Developer @ Unknown
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Specialized in:
- Responsive, performant and accessible statically generated websites 
- UI/UX design & consultations
- SEO

### Laboratory Technician @ Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Santa Cruz, California

### Laboratory Assistant @ University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Santa Cruz, California


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016

### International Baccalaureate
St. Stephen's School
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nickmeriano
- Website: https://www.nickmeriano.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-20