# Nick Znajkowski > Software Engineer Location: Queens, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nickznajkowski ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Dandelion Health Jan 2023 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Octane Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area Acted as Senior Engineer on a greenfield Microservices team responsible for paving a road to breaking up a Django monolith over a 3-5 year period. Projects included: - Designing and leading work on an Identity Token service (team of 3) - Shipping an internal templated email service - Templates for generating Python microservices - Designed and led a workshop and supporting materials to educate the engineering org on DDD principles, microservice architecture, and how to use our internal tools. ### Software Engineer @ Calibrate Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area - As first FT engineering hire, built out initial suite of HIPAA-compliant internal tools, helping scale the company from 10 to 500+ employees, primarily in a Django monolith. - Designed and led development on automated FHIR-compliant diagnostic lab ordering system. - Helped architect departure from Django-based internal tools in favor of micro-frontends in response to exponential growth of customer base (100 to 10,000+) and growing engineering team. - Responsible for setting up and maintaining various integrations (member chat, email notifications, appointment scheduling, medication management and surveys) - Onboarded 5 new engineering hires ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Tentrr Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area Tech Used: Django, React, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Cloudwatch, SSN, CloudFormation, S3) - Designed and built customer-facing API for bookings, listing information, and user details. - Integrated React widget for the above -- able to be dropped on third-party pages. - Aided in migration from Django to a cloud-based infrastructure. - Implemented 3rd party search engine for front-end search results. - Built various one-off applications for sales lead generation and developer convenience. ### Software Engineer @ Synacor Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area Technologies/languages used: Python, Javascript, Node, React, AWS, Django Sole Full Stack Engineer on the Media Supply Chain team Responsible for building out front and back ends of a client-facing app for interacting with an end-to-end video processing system. Features include: Viewing DRM’ed video and live streams, customizable widget dashboard for displaying metrics, ability to query data, start video processing jobs via upload or remote file selection, design job templates, and send out maintenance notifications Extensive use of AWS services including DynamoDB, Lambda (backed by Node), Cognito, CloudFormation, ElasticBeanstalk, CodeCommit, CodePipeline and API Gateway Built out an extensive REST API using Lambda and API Gateway for CRUD and data processing purposes Acquired fluency in video technologies (including DRM) Set up Django as an authentication back end tied to a React front end, later swapped for AWS Cognito ### Student @ App Academy Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Full stack web development course with focus on Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, SQL, and React. Special focus on good coding practices and understanding everything that goes on under the hood (for example, by building ActiveRecord and Rails from the ground up). ### Academic Director @ DK Education Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Beijing, China • Worked on incorporating established principles of cognitive science and educational psychology into our curriculum for both student and teacher benefit • Taught small classes in-office and larger SAT classes at The High School Affiliated with Beijing Normal University (北京师范大学附属中学) and Beijing Central Finance University (中央财经大学） • Designed and implemented a research-based Teacher Training Program. • Researched, wrote, and presented 2 papers on the 2016 SAT Redesign • Managed a group of 5 teachers in the creation of a new SAT Curriculum encompassing all the new features of the 2016 SAT • Additional 600 hours of teaching ### Academic English Instructor @ DK Education Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Beijing City, China • Taught 1 on 1, 3-5 Person, and 25 person high school classes in Beijing on SAT prep with an emphasis on developing reading and writing skills • Provided college application help and counseling • Approximately 800 hours taught ### Translator @ JIARUI Fine Foods Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 • Translated marketing materials (including catalogs and presentations) from Chinese to English. ### Stock @ West Elm Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Shipping, receiving, keeping the stock room organized, ## Education ### BA in Linguistics New York University Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ### Regis High School Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nickznaj - Website: http://www.nickznaj.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/nickznajkowski JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nickznajkowski/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23