Nick Roberts Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

Denver Metropolitan Area

Partner in an early-stage startup focused on digital rights management and monetization.

Denver Metropolitan Area

• Worked on back-end application and API development for the Square Online merchant platform.
• Present during a period of a 10x scaling of the ECOM engineering team within 4 years.
• Helped drive scaling of the Square Online merchant platform from 600 storefronts to 250,000 storefronts within 4 years.
• Responsible for keeping the online stores running at significant scale, handling thousands of transactions per day. This included regular weekly on-call rotations.
• Collaborated with multiple teams across Square on various features, including Square Pay, On-Demand Delivery, and Recurring Subscriptions Checkout.
• Provided technical designs and reviews for various projects within ECOM, paricularly focused on shopping cart, checkout, and payment flows.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked on full stack application and API development for the e-commerce team.
• One of 12 initial hires to help develop and scale out their new e-commerce platform as a set of microservices.
• Responsible for keeping the Weebly online stores running at scale, handling thousands of transactions per day. This included regular weekly on-call rotations.
• Collaborated with multiple teams on various features, including checkout flows, digital payments, fulfillments, and analytics.
• Handled integrations and troubleshooting with other 3rd party services like Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, and Shippo.
• Back-end stack: Laravel/Eloquent/MySQL/Elasticsearch

San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked with an early-stage healthcare startup to bring their mobile-focused urgent care product from concept to soft launch.
• Defined and implemented the platform API using open-source technologies and integration of third-party web services.
• Defined and implemented the data architecture used for the application and back-end business processes.
• Defined and implemented the build and deployment process using cloud-based technologies and continuous integration.
• Collaborated with CTO and business team to define product and feature milestones.
• Trained and mentored developers and participated in code reviews.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Led the team responsible for building and maintaining APIs to support Trulia’s native mobile apps (iOS, Android) and data pipelines.
• Drove the migration from a home-grown monolithic web stack to a service-oriented architecture built on open-source frameworks.
• Designed and implemented new business-critical web services in coordination with internal/remote dev and operations teams.
• Introduced a common API framework and evangelized it to other development teams, providing guidance on building their own web services.
• Managed and prioritized weekly releases for new app features in coordination with mobile product and marketing teams.
• Improved engineering success, engagement, and stability by introducing TDD and standardized deployment processes to team.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Built and maintained web sites, tools, and APIs used to support their digital music distribution business.
• Drove refactoring projects which migrated legacy web applications to a new standards-based MVC architecture.
• Re-architected customer dashboard application to focus on componentized libraries, performance, and stability.
• Worked with data engineers to define and build SOA for ingesting customer metadata and audio content.
• Launched public API to expose all publicly accessible metadata for customers and third-party service integrations.
• Selected as core transition team member when migrating code and data during the Orchard merger/acquisition.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Founding team member of a startup company working on personalized video search products.
• Draper Fisher Jurvetson led our Series A.
• Our company was showcased at Techcrunch Disrupt 2008.
• Worked with the core team to take the product from conception through launch.
• Prototyped and launched a version of the product for the WII gaming platform.
• Managed multiple aspects of product engineering, infrastructure, and hiring.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Member of a cross-functional dev team for an agency specializing in the pharma and healthcare markets.
• Developed CRM and distance-based learning products for multiple platforms: web, kiosk and CD-ROM.
• Worked with senior managers to establish engineering and people management processes.
• Back-end stack: JSP/Hibernate/MySQL
• Front-end stack: Flash/Javascript