Software Engineer

Nick
Coffey

Building systems that scale, interfaces that delight, and teams that ship.

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About

Engineer with 10+ years of experience spanning distributed systems, developer tooling, and product engineering. I've led teams at startups and large orgs, shipping products used by millions. I care deeply about craft, performance, and the humans behind the code.

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Experience

2022 – Present
Apex Systems

Staff Engineer

Leading platform architecture for a real-time data pipeline serving 50M+ events/day. Designed the migration from monolith to event-driven microservices.

2019 – 2022
Vantage Labs

Senior Engineer

Built the core SDK and developer platform. Grew API adoption from 200 to 12,000+ integrations. Led a team of 6 engineers.

2016 – 2019
Redline Interactive

Software Engineer

Full-stack product engineering on consumer-facing web apps. Led frontend architecture migration to React with server-side rendering.

2014 – 2016
Cobalt Digital

Software Engineer

Built internal tools and client dashboards. First engineering hire — wore many hats from DevOps to design.

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Selected Work

Open Source

Gridlock

A high-performance virtual grid component for React. Handles 1M+ rows with sub-frame rendering. 4.2k GitHub stars.

ReactTypeScriptWebAssembly
Developer Tool

Pulsewave

Real-time application monitoring dashboard with custom query language. Sub-second alerting on anomaly detection.

GoPostgreSQLWebSockets
Design System

Terracotta

Component library and design token system used across 8 product teams. Automated visual regression testing pipeline.

ReactStorybookFigma API
CLI Tool

Sigil

Code generation CLI that scaffolds full-stack TypeScript projects from OpenAPI specs. Used by 2k+ developers.

Node.jsTypeScriptAST
Infrastructure

Arclight

Edge caching layer that reduced API latency by 73%. Handles 200k req/s with intelligent cache invalidation.

RustRedisCloudflare Workers
Side Project

Dawnbreak

Generative art engine that creates unique wallpapers from ambient sensor data. Exploring the intersection of data and aesthetics.

Canvas APIPythonMQTT
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Skills

Languages
TypeScript
Go
Rust
Python
SQL
Frontend
React
Next.js
WebGL
CSS Architecture
Backend
Node.js
gRPC
GraphQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
Infrastructure
AWS
Kubernetes
Terraform
CI/CD
Practices
System Design
Tech Leadership
Performance Optimization
Open Source
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Writing

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Let's build something great

Always open to interesting conversations and collaborations.