# Nick Nish > Senior Software Engineer II, prev. Growth Frontend Lead @ Credit Karma Money Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nicknish Hi there! 👋🏼 I'm Nick, a passionate developer with a love for building high-impact products. I love frontend development, but I'm a product engineer first with deep experience in building web applications that have reached scales of tens of millions. I've been lucky to be on teams backed by Andreessen-Horowitz, YCombinator, and Google Capital, and hope to continue working with other kind and passionate folk. I love conversations about product, design, and brand building. I write a little, meditate, learn every day without fail, and strive to carry joy in everything I do. Let's do it! ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer II @ ZipRecruiter Jan 2024 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ ZipRecruiter Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 ### Founder @ Makers Create Studio Jan 2015 – Present Founder of Makers Create Studio, a web and digital product studio. We are a product-first company, using cutting-edge technologies to build beautiful web products for brands and organizations. For a single client, we offer work regarding: • Design and Brand strategy • Development of performant and scalable websites and web applications • SEO and analytics audit • Education for CMS, platform, or other technology tools Clients: Precision Hotel Interiors, Rock Bottom Records, DJ RichEBeats, Samantha Joson, Henry's Original, Artifact Nursery, DJ LUXO Website: https://makerscreate.studio/ ### Software Engineer IV & Growth Team Frontend Lead @ Credit Karma Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States • Fall 2020 ⎯ As co-lead frontend engineer for mission-critical project, led integration of Intuit’s TurboTax with Credit Karma Money to allow tax filers to access their refund funds 2 weeks earlier. 2 years of cross-functional collaboration, implemented features and conducted A/B tests, resulting in millions of new checking accounts and billions of $ in new deposits. The integration is a key growth driver for Credit Karma Money and was architected for easy future partnership integrations. • 2021–2022: Growth Team Frontend Lead ⎯ As lead frontend engineer of the Growth team, owned key growth projects like A/B tests and partner integrations. Responsibilities include mentoring and onboarding new engineers, sprint planning, breaking down complex projects, organizing frontend eng meetups, and collaborating with stakeholders across organizations. Led part of planning for the 2023 growth roadmap, including one of the company's most important OKRs involving substantial research of browser capabilities to embed one application in another. ⎯ Led the migration of Credit Karma Money to a new design system, built with an internal React component library that I was a key contributor and code owner of. Managing two contract engineers and collaborating with Quality Engineering, migrated pages and components to new APIs while developing an automated visual regression system to mitigate production risk. Another key factor in Money becoming an internal leader of technology, bringing critical mass and leader attention and driving mass adoption. • Infra ⎯ Led frontend infrastructure projects, including migrating Money’s frontend build pipeline to Webpack 5 with React Fast Refresh, resulting in a 10x increase in local development speeds, decreased production JavaScript bundle sizes, and paved the way for Module Federation. After piloting in production, migrated company's internal build pipeline tooling, enabling frontend and developer efficiency improvements company-wide. ### Software Engineer III @ Credit Karma Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California • Joined the initial team responsible for building Credit Karma Money ⎯ 3rd full-time frontend engineer to build Credit Karma Money’s savings account product’s client app that launched in mid 2019. ⎯ After launch, became project co-lead frontend engineer to build the checking account product’s client app. ⎯ Not only were these 2 of the most anticipated launches in company history, within 2-years of initial launch the checking product established Credit Karma as the #2 largest neo-bank in the U.S. This success was one of the key drivers of Intuit’s acquisition of Credit Karma. ⎯ Additionally, this team internally became one of the company’s leaders in driving new frontend technology, paving the way for other verticals to adopt into their frontend applications. ### Software Engineer II @ Credit Karma Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Los Angeles, CA • Joined Credit Karma Autos engineering team ⎯ Helped build 2nd version of the Auto Insurance marketplace. Cross-functional collaboration between product, eng, and other stakeholders, I implemented and helped ideate growth A/B tests that resulted in 50% increased revenue within 3 months of joining. ### Full Stack Engineer @ Bonsai Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Remote Bonsai is a YCombinator company looking to be the de-facto freelancer product suite with contracts, invoices, accounting, and more. • Full-stack Product Engineering ⎯ Full-stack development using Ruby on Rails, ES6, React.js, Redux, jQuery, vanilla JavaScript ⎯ Shipped: Real-time Browser Notifications with ActionCable (WebSockets), Slack OAuth integration, Electron macOS desktop app, React-Redux Timetracker • Company ⎯ First full-time developer hire ⎯ Wrote the first drafts of the culture, onboarding, and developer documentation ### Frontend Engineer @ BloomNation Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Santa Monica, CA BloomNation is an Andreessen-Horowitz startup aiming to modernize the floral industry by creating direct-to-consumer tooling for florists across the U.S. My role revolved around all user-facing BloomNation products. I was a product owner (and often lead) for the projects I was apart of. The stack that I worked with includes PHP, the Magento framework, Sass/SCSS, jQuery, and vanilla JavaScript. Notable roles: • BloomNation.com design implementation ⎯ Collaborating with the founders, product, dev, and design, I implemented multiple design iterations. ⎯ Designed and implemented mocks for brand partnerships with theSkimm and August • BloomNation Resource Center (florist blog) ⎯ Side-by-side with the product, community, and design teams, built (from AWS instance to unit testing) and launched a deeply customized WordPress installation. • Optimized Front-end Workflow with Grunt ⎯ Improved performance, development time, and allowed use of modern tools such as minification, Sass/SCSS, JavaScript linters, and more. • Front-end performance auditing and improvements ⎯ Minification mentioned above and code cleanup optimized site wide page load by >25%. • Email Marketing Workflow ⎯ Built the email design workflow for developing emails using Grunt, Sass/SCSS, and Handlebars. ⎯ Utilized the leading tools, including Litmus, MailChimp, and Marketo. • Google Tag Manager Implementation ⎯ Helped implement Google Analytics with GTM to make data-driven product decisions. • Documentation Improvement and Github Repo Cleanup ⎯ Wrote, improved, and maintained documentation ⎯ Pruned hundreds of unused files from the repository ⎯ Organized thousands of lines of CSS into a modular library ⎯ Standardized the JavaScript and CSS • Helped hire 6 employees and train 3 developers • Design team establishment and organization • Founding member of the culture team ## Education ### Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 ### Web Development Immersive General Assembly Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicknish - Website: https://www.nicknish.co - Website: https://nicknish-experiments.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/resume/nick_nish_resume_public.pdf --- Source: https://flows.cv/nicknish JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nicknish/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22