# Nikkolas Sanchez

> Software Engineer Ex-Snap

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nikkolas

Software Engineer with interests Frontend Engineering and Full Stack Development

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Ethos
Jan 2024 – Present
Ethos is an online life insurance company dedicated to making the process of obtaining life insurance as easy and pain-free as possible. I work on the Consumer Activations team, focusing on the bottom-of-funnel process, which is crucial for converting new customers into policyholders.

Tech Stack:
Frontend: React, Redux, Typescript
Backend: Node, Koa
Database: Postgres

### Software Engineer @ Snap Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
Played a key role in the early development and ongoing maintenance of the Camera Kit Web SDK (@snap/camera-kit), bringing Snapchat Camera functionalities and augmented reality to the web.

Enhanced the Web SDK by extending public APIs for media stream attachment, transformations, and custom render sizing.

Spearheaded the development of the Sample Page for the Web SDK, showcasing use cases to developers and facilitating lens and SDK testing for internal teams. This sample page, along with our automated testing framework, significantly reduced the time to roll out new releases while also catching niche bugs.

Tech Stack:
Frontend: React, Typescript, RxJS, IndexedDB

### Software Engineer @ Curology
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Worked on an online skincare platform connecting patients across the U.S. to doctors for custom acne and aging treatments.

Maintained and updated the admin app, including resolving a race condition to prevent double charges using Redis. Improved patient sign-up performance by optimizing webpack, reducing the First Contentful Paint by ~2 seconds. Led the integration of UPS as a second carrier by refactoring backend architecture to be reusable and agnostic of the shipping carrier.

Tech Stack:
Frontend: React, Typescript
Backend: PHP, Laravel
Database: MySql

### Full Stack Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Culver City, California
Developed and maintained internal tools for Apple TV, working across the stack from frontend to backend. Responsibilities included designing data models for core components, creating reusable complex SQL queries, making reusable frontend components, and enhancing the flexibility of the Vue router by utilizing query parameters for deep linking.

Tech Stack:
Frontend: Vue, Vuex
Backend: Node, Express
Database: Oracle SQL

### Software Engineer @ FactoryFour
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Culver City, California
Real Time Manufacturing Software Company. During my time with FactoryFour I worked on two of there main applications which are currently being used by numerous organizations.  We worked in two week sprints where I was in direct communication with both the product and design team. Most sprints involved me updating or creating new core features as well as participating in code reviews in order to ensure high standard of reusable code. **(Economic constraint lead to an unfortunate company wide lay-off)

### Front End Engineer @ MetiStream
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Remote
SaaS based interactive healthcare analytics platform that simplifies analytics for healthcare organizations.
Converted entire project to ​es6 ​while implementing ​DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) ​standards by consolidating code into reusable components. Re built entire ​Redux​ folder to follow ​Flux Pattern​. (i.e ​Actions, Types, Reducers, Store​). Restructuring/Scaffolding of folders and files to a cleaner style for scalability

### iOS Developer @ MeeteR - Social Event Platform
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

### iOS Developer @ ideaTree - .Incubate .mentor .invest
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area

### Engineering Intern @ MeeteR - Social Event Platform
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017


## Education
### Hack Reactor


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nsanchez92

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Last updated: 2026-03-22