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Nicholas Stine

Nicholas Stine

Peoria,,Arizona

Summary

As a full stack Node.js developer approaching 4 years of experience, I’m ready to move into a challenging new position, advance both my Development, Project Management, and Dev Ops abilities, and find new opportunities to apply my management experience from my careers in software development (3.5 years) and commercial aviation (4 years).

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Full Stack Web and App Developer

DC International Inc.
Phoenix , AZ
2021.10 - Current

• Full stack development, deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting of web based logistical tools and cross-platform mobile apps.

• Successfully integrated and embedded third party API's like BoldSign (fully embedded e-sign feature) and DeepGram (automated AI transcriptions of videos from an S3 bucket).

• Performed as Lead App Developer on multiple mobile app projects, both on truncated deadlines and under extreme pressure.

• Built, trained, and integrated a license plate detection neural network in an iOS app.

Lead Full Stack Developer

Acteducate.com
Phoenix , AZ
2021.02 - 2021.10

• Lead Full Stack developer of a subscription based, customer facing online portal for users to enroll in and visit LMS managed courses (Absorb).

• Single-handedly implemented subscriptions, subscription hierarchies, automated payments, and webhook monitoring for payment events (Stripe).

• CI/CD setup, deployment, and live maintenance of the website and it's backend, including hotfixes to production issues.

• Facilitated an Agile development cycle, iterating and improving the company's website to help them grow to $500k in annual revenue.

• Trained, managed, and supported the project's junior developer.

Junior Full Stack Developer (Intern)

Village
Phoenix
2020.06 - 2021.02

• Basic UI and backend feature development

• Support roles including warning / error cleanup

• Review and refactoring of other junior developer’s code

Education

Modernization of A Statistical Agronomy Tool -

Stat-Simple
  • Objective: Enhance accessibility and usability of a legacy statistical tool for agriculture and agronomy professionals.
  • Action: Translated an MS-DOS based statistical tool into a JavaScript-based web application.
  • Outcome: Simplified and modernized the user interface, making the tool intuitive and easy to use.
  • Impact: Provided an affordable, user-friendly alternative to expensive and complex statistical software, thereby increasing tool adoption and utility among agriculture experts.

AI Powered Animal Identification And Tracking -

TensorFlow
  • Objective: Develop a reliable system for identifying and re-identifying animals in various scenes and lighting conditions.
  • Action: Acquired three years of expertise in TensorFlow, a Python library for building, training, and deploying neural networks.
  • Outcome: Implemented a Siamese Neural Network, commonly used for facial recognition, to assign unique identities to animals captured on trail cameras.
  • Key Takeaways: First; strong performance with low to no training is inherent in well designed models. Second; collecting, labeling, and properly shuffling data is worth the substantial time investment (+40 hours in this case).

Skills

  • Fluent in Javascript, Python, and Java
  • Backend API Development
  • Third Party API Integration
  • Git, GitHub, & Version Control
  • AWS (ECS, S3, RDS, Route53, and more)
  • React, Vue, & Angular Web Frameworks
  • SQL and No-SQL Databases
  • Skills Project Management

Timeline

Full Stack Web and App Developer - DC International Inc.
2021.10 - Current
Lead Full Stack Developer - Acteducate.com
2021.02 - 2021.10
Junior Full Stack Developer (Intern) - Village
2020.06 - 2021.02
Stat-Simple - Modernization of A Statistical Agronomy Tool,
TensorFlow - AI Powered Animal Identification And Tracking,
Nicholas Stine