Nicolas Y.

Leading the Growth engineering team at Rebrandly. Partnering with product and design to support rapid experimentation and feature delivery. Improving developer velocity through clearer architecture, better tooling, and adoption of AI-assisted development practices.

- Built an e-signature and record management system for an environmental services agency, integrating HelloSign, Dropbox, and SharePoint APIs with AWS Lambda and MySQL, resulting in 1,000+ staff hours saved (S&A Carbon) - Refactored legacy code and enhanced UX for a nonprofit’s financial dashboard managing $400M in assets, achieving 30% load time improvement (Cross Link Group) - Developed and maintained full-stack features for secure infrastructure access, including long-lived session provisioning and backend authentication/authorization systems (Teleport/Gravitational) - Maintain availability for short-term freelance engagements while prioritizing impact for full-time roles

Design and implement automation solutions using GitHub Actions, Projects, and custom scripts, empowering engineering leadership to make data-driven decisions on resource allocation and team growth • Maintain and enhance critical software tools for Engineering Operations, including onboarding labs and custom applications, improving efficiency across the engineering organization • Develop technical solutions for business challenges, focusing on streamlining processes and reducing manual overhead for engineering leaders • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect integrated systems that enhance visibility into hiring initiatives and team performance metrics • Lead initiatives to optimize talent acquisition strategies by creating data processing pipelines that transform raw hiring data into actionable insights • Champion modern development practices within the operations team, implementing CI/CD pipelines and embracing infrastructure-as-code principles

As a Platform Engineer, I am committed to designing, building, and maintaining the robust infrastructure that empowers our development and operations teams. Leveraging cloud services, containerization technologies, and automation systems, I create scalable and efficient platforms for seamless application deployment and management. With my background as a Full-stack engineer I bring a unique approach to engineering solutions for my team and my role is pivotal in optimizing performance, cost, and availability, ensuring our infrastructure consistently meets the evolving needs of the organization.

- Led the development and testing of a backend feature in Node.js for a training sandbox data generation project, generating unique sequential identifiers for veteran training data; integrated this into a React app and coordinated other back-end aspects - Contributed to the organization's security compliance efforts by addressing vulnerabilities in multiple programming languages on the IA team - Modernized the VA's user interface by developing 508-compliant custom React components and supporting a custom component library effort for development teams to use across the project - Deployed a Python app to AWS using ECR for seamless Slack integration with the office's 'happy hour' light system

Collaborated with stakeholders at a non-profit with $400 million in assets to interpret user stories and bug fixes into new features and improvements for their online dashboard. Executed extensive refactoring troubleshooting and consuming of inherited legacy code.

Built a Full-stack connection with Node.js Netlify/AWS Lambdas between PHP-based client intranet, HelloSign API, Dropbox API, Sharepoint API and MySQL database, allowing staff and contractors to electronically sign documents while keeping records up to date and lowering audit risk.

- Developed first-ever parent/children safety protocol, implementing a security label and check-in system for parents and background checks for volunteers, resulting in a sustained increase of families in attendance. - Led the church's largest volunteer base (50+) creating or preparing curriculum, skits, and songs for 3 classrooms spanning ages 1 - 11. - Scheduled, trained and supported rotating teams on how to run each week's lesson, showing how to appropriately scale complex subjects to children in each age range.

- Redesigned church website using Wordpress and launched on a fresh new domain name. Designed a secondary website for ministry school using Squarespace. Setup Bandcamp page for Album release. - Installed Ubiquiti Unifi network system eliminating wi-fi latency issues on campus to allow for more consistent media production.

- Launched the first-ever weekly Live-streaming broadcast for weekly services in addition to multiple live-streamed conferences and events with world-wide reach. Self-taught filming, production and multi-stream broadcasting technologies and trained others on the same. - Implemented and trained staff on a best-in-class church management system: --- Event registration system -> allowed credit-card payments for paid events for the first time --- Online donor management -> permitted credit-card and ACH payment for the first time --- Membership Database -> migrated member data from legacy database --- Resource Management -> eased scheduling of rooms and shared resources --- Community Group Directory -> facilitated connection and relationships between members - Started an internship program providing mentoring and skills training opportunities to several teens in the areas of administration, video production and marketing/communications.

Managing multiple distributor and manufacturer relationships for hardware/software resale to schools. Single point of contact between sales/accounting and distributors. Handling price negotiation, cost tracking, order tracking and coordinating purchases between sales and accounting teams. -Created a purchasing & order management process that didn't exist previously. -Increased speed, efficiency for Sales Engineers placing orders and reduced human error & double entry. -Traveled as company representative to distributor's partner events. -Won peer reviewed "Rest and Reflect" award for ability to remain calm in stressful situations and maintain a healthy home/work balance.

As the first resellers of Chromebooks, responded to hundreds of urgent requests for quotes from schools passed by Google sales reps daily. Very high email volume requiring keen prioritization and thorough workflow organization. -In 3 quarters, closed 300 deals worth $4 million, representing 35% of the company's 2013 total Hardware revenue. -Excelled in responding to customers, even in the midst of unexpected supplier delays . Gained trust with customers who stayed with us year after year. -Won peer reviewed "Move Fast, Make New Mistakes" award 2nd year in a row. Presented value to the company and wrote a blog post.

Sold Google's 'G Suite' cloud platform alongside company's onboarding/training/migration services. Used product knowledge, clear communication and charm to ease customers' concerns and answer questions about switching from legacy systems to the cloud. -Given the nickname 'Hydra' for selling a backlog of Google Apps on-boarding projects that engineers couldn't keep up with. -Remotely trained an intern to replace this position. -Updated knowledge base with training content and gave it a visual overhaul. -Won peer-reviewed "Move Fast, Make New Mistakes" award for taking new risks and then correcting, learning and sharing knowledge from resulting successes or mistakes.

Serving the needs of guests with anticipation, consideration and promptness. Maintaining organization and communicating effectively with a team.

Cooking meals to order in a high volume, high pressure environment while maintaining speed, accuracy and quality. Organizing pantry, general to heavy cleaning, and dishwashing.

Preparing a variety of ingredients, assisting in cooking and presentation for special events. Organizing pantry, general to heavy cleaning, and dishwashing.

Hack Reactor is an advanced, 12-week immersive full-stack development program. The curriculum focuses on HTML and CSS, front-end JavaScript frameworks (React), server development (Node.js, Express), and databases (relational and non-relational) during 800 hours of instruction, projects, and hands-on work. I studied Javascript fundamentals for an additional 700 hours in preparation for the immersive beginning in January 2020 for a total of 1,500 study hours logged upon graduation in August 2020.