# Rick Nilon > Software Engineer II at Wayfair Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ricknilon Experienced full stack software engineer with a passion for designing clean, focused, and elegant frontend and backend code. With professional experience in Typescript, Apollo GraphQL, React, and PHP, and an academic background in computer science, music, and economics, I am passionate about collaboratively creating scaleable applications and systems with the highest standards. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer III @ Wayfair Jan 2023 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States ### Software Engineer II @ Wayfair Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States ### Software Engineer I @ Wayfair Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States ### Full Stack Web Developer @ Flatiron School Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York A full-time immersive web development program designed to equip aspiring web developers with the skills necessary to launch careers in modern web development. This 15 week program includes full-time on-campus training, classes/lectures, individual, pair and group programming projects, code challenges, presentations and more. Studied a variety of web development languages, frameworks, and libraries such as Ruby, Rack, Sinatra, Rails, SQL, Javascript, Git, HTML, CSS, React and Redux. Collaborated with project teams to develop and present a variety of web-based applications and build web development skills and efficiency as well as communicate code effectively, including: Gig Hunter Socal app that connects musicians to available gigs. + Constructed interactive components using React. + Utilized Redux Thunk to asynchronously retrieve information from my database. + Created an extensive database and API using Ruby On Rails and Postgres. + Designed website using React Semantic and custom CSS to create an enjoyable user experience. Traveler Travel app to help organize places a traveler will go to. + Composed functional ES6 Javascript code to display relevant information about a trip. + Employed Yelp API to generate information for user to interact with. + Used Rails API to store user and trip information. + Designed layout and color scheme using Bootstrap and custom CSS. PlaceMe Social media app designed to connect people to places they have been and want to go. + Utilized Ruby On Rails to create a dynamic web site. + Constructed routes for different web pages. + Connected with the Teleport API to present data for a specific place. + Used MVC setup for app. ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science - Data Analytics Concentration Boston University ### Bachelor's degree in Music - Minor in Economics The City College of New York ### High School Diploma Long Beach Public Schools ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ricknilon - GitHub: https://github.com/allinthemind66 - Portfolio: https://medium.com/@r.nilon92 --- Source: https://flows.cv/ricknilon JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ricknilon/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-28