# Nick Smith

> Full stack software engineer & data-driven product developer | JavaScript, React, Express, Node.js, MongoDB, SQL, Postgres, MySQL, Ruby on Rails

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nicksmith

Empowering SMBs @ Gusto.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Gusto
Jan 2021 – Present

### Software Engineering Instructor @ Galvanize Inc
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Frontend Engineer, Vertex online real estate marketplace @ Software Engineering Applications
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
• Delivered an interactive user experience using stateful React components to enable real-time chart updates based on multiple user inputs.
• Communicated complex data outputs with SVG data visualizations.
• Designed and managed flexible admin developer tools using Express.js and MongoDB.
• Ensured feature modularity and fault tolerance by implementing a microservices architecture.
• Scaled reliably by deploying with Docker and EC2.

### Full Stack Engineer, Global Climate Change Measures Database @ Software Engineering Applications
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Built and deployed database and front end of UC Berkeley's new climate change legislation data aggregation project.
• Allow researchers to ask and answer academically novel questions by designing and implementing a PostgreSQL database with browsable, sortable and filterable data dashboards.
• Built CI/CD pipeline to increase developer productivity and facilitate collaboration with data science team.

### Lead Full Stack Engineer @ X-Street Farms
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020
Developed data management and data integration platform to optimize and automate farm operations.
• Iteratively decreased labor hours per production unit by building automations & UI optimizations using LEAN methodology.
• Integrated disparate API systems (accounting, labeling, delivery) into an automated operational process.
• Leveraged SVG and D3.js to provide data-driven analysis for executive decision making. 
• Maintained 99+% up-time over three years of constant use in a production environment.

### Founder, Grower-In-Chief @ X-Street Farms
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Founded X-Street Farms in 2017 to decrease food miles to ZERO by growing healthy, delicious food in cities. Hardware design, development, construction of scalable, automated indoor grow technologies. Led farm operation including on-going, data-driven product and process optimizations. Hiring and team management.

### Partner Manager @ Graphiq Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Established & grew relationships with the largest US news publishers (USA TODAY, TIME Inc, NBC News, etc). Grew partner use & consumption of Graphiq's products worldwide.

### Growth Hacker @ Oliver + Sons
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Iterative, data-driven content optimization & growth strategies across digital & print channels for a diverse client portfolio.

### Communications Manager & Magazine Editor @ UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Mosher Alumni House, UCSB
Managing Editor at quarterly magazine Coastlines.
Messaging, email marketing, alumni outreach, alumni advocacy, disaster management, analytics infrastructure.
Increased alumni donations & grew community activation with data-driven strategies.

### Fullstack Web Developer, The Lemonade Stand @ Web Development & Digital Marketing (freelance contracts)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Strategized, designed & built web applications for The Lemonade Stand's pre-launch, launch and post-launch online homes. These sites built awareness, provided information and compiled constituent lists to help this burgeoning non-profit get up and running towards its mission.

### Growth Marketer, Dear Me: A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old-Self @ Web Development & Digital Marketing (freelance contracts)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Built user interfaces and consulted on digital outreach to sell out pre-order quotas with online community growth & retention initiatives.

### Frontend Web Developer & Growth Marketer, A Killer Story @ Web Development & Digital Marketing (freelance contracts)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Sold out the show's opening run using place-based social media growth tactics.

### Digital Platforms Manager, Hacked Off Campaign @ Web Development & Digital Marketing (freelance contracts)
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Executed the campaign's swift launch with actionable outreach via email & other channels. Grew the campaign with automated contact acquisition & database management.

### Reporter, Editor, Digital Publishing & Analytics @ Output Magazine
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
News & feature writing & editing, social media, video production, live coverage, trade shows. Implemented and managed Google analytics and led data-driven editorial decision-making.

### Online Editor, Managing Editor @ The River Newspaper
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
Directed digital platforms & analytics-based editorial strategy.


## Education
### Computer Software Engineering
Hack Reactor

### Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences in Journalism with Creative Writing
Kingston University

### International Baccalaureate Diploma - Bilingual in French & English
French American International High School (FAIS)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/digitaldsnthurt
- Website: https://github.com/DigitalDsntHurt

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