# Nicholas Stalter

> Lead Senior Software Engineer

Location: Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nicholasstalter

Full stack software engineer with a passion for quality.

nickstalter.com
https://github.com/distortia

## Work Experience
### Lead Senior Software Engineer @ Cars.com
Jan 2023 – Present
Leading a foundational project to unify mobile and web clients under a single Elixir/GraphQL-powered architecture. Driving technical direction, defining requirements, ensuring cross-platform alignment, and coordinating simultaneous delivery across all platforms.

Led the replacement of a legacy MongoDB/ Node.js API with an in-app Elixir solution, which improved performance, maintainability, and reduced infrastructure costs.
Mentoring engineers on best practices, coding standards, testing opportunities, and professional growth during 1:1 and code reviews

### Senior Software Engineer @ InfluxData
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Columbus, Ohio, United States
Integrated an Elixir/React app, responsible for identity and access management, onboarding and provisioning accounts across all major cloud providers(GCP, AWS, Azure)
Lead and developed the unification of authentication across global platform services using Auth0 through the Elixir platform
Worked across teams to unify the platform UI across different services, migrated the Elixir app from Heroku to Kubernetes on GCP
Mentored junior engineers and interns. Volunteered to lead the intern project which simulated cloud marketplaces which improved the testing capabilities for the Elixir project.

### Software Engineer @ CAS
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Columbus, Ohio Area
April 2016 - June 2020
Developed a distributed test runner in Elixir which reduced testing times by 10+x . 
Led project to report on DevOps metrics across various source control systems
Developed a real-time security service in Elixir to scan and report on vulnerabilities within systems
Created a project to ingest and forecast browser test coverage across all major and minor browsers based on user agents and browser upgrade adoption to identify risk and maximize test coverage

### CEO @ Alphaity LLC
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Columbus, Ohio Area
CEO and Co-founder of an innovation forward technology company. We aim to release ideas into the wild as fast as possible while maintaining a high level of quality and passion.

LunchSpecialsNearMe (Elixir/Phoenix/Google Maps) - Linking local restaurants with local stomachs.

Propollr (Elixir/Phoenix) - a real-time instant polling application which emphasized anonymous feedback.

### Senior QA Engineer @ Information Control Company
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Columbus, Ohio Area
Assisting clients in architecting new and existing test suites.
Leading efforts in exploring new technologies and practices.

### QA Engineer @ Beam Dental
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Architect and implement an automation testing suite using Calabash, Cucumber, and Ruby on physical devices for native apps.
Develop a mobile forward browser automation testing suite for responsive web development using Cucumber, Page Object, Watir-Webdriver, RSpec and Ruby.
Manage test suites and jobs using Jenkins CI.

### Mobile Automation Engineer @ Nationwide Insurance
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Building an automation device testing suite from the ground up using Ruby, Calabash, Cucumber, and Page Object. The system is used to test physical devices using Nationwide mobile app.

### Lead Front End Web Developer @ PointStart LLC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Designing and building the frontend of a real estate web application. The application was built in Phalcon and utilized a typical LAMP stack

### Web Developer, Account Liasion @ InSourc
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Worked with clients to produce high quality custom websites built in a CMS of their choice, typically Wordpress.

### IT/Developer @ Service Spring
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Maumee Oh
Created a mobile notification system for system outages and inclement weather. The system was integrated into Active Directory and utilized Twilio as the messaging service.

### Team Leader @ LifeSweeper Technologies
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | University of Toledo
• Effectively managing a small group under tight deadlines
• Planning of project scope and details
• Rapid prototyping of controls and tools 
• Composing web site and Arduino programs

### Network Engineer/IT Consultant @ Act Systems LTD
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Sylvania, OH
Provided IT consulting for a number of small to medium sized businesses. Services ranged from server installation and network monitoring to desktop support

### Desktop Support @ The University of Toledo
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
•	Troubleshot Windows and Mac workstations in enterprise network
•	Managed users and computers in Active Directory
•	Deployed endpoint encryption on all workstations
•	Cooperated with numerous departments on large scale projects


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science and Engineering Technology
The University of Toledo
Jan 2009 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicholas-stalter-4b520593
- Website: http://nickstalter.com
- Website: https://gitlab.com/u/distortia

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Last updated: 2026-03-22