Nigel E. Email & Phone Number

Owned, designed and built reliable, fault tolerant backend integrations in Rust for several payment providers for the cozy MMO Palia. Working closely with game engineers, product and data stakeholders to build an implementation to delight players and internal stakeholders alike.Maintained operations supporting the monetization and digital item entitlements.

Led, planned and executed internal upgrades greatly improving security, performance across the entire backend application. Said work also included laying the groundwork for future security and performance improvementsRedesigned critical software infrastructure, making it highly scalable, over 2x increase in performance, massive reliability improvements.

New York City

Utilizing Go I designed and built various tools to allow developers to deploy containerized applications quickly, securely and efficiently to AWS. Leaning on a variety of services such as ECS, VPC, SQS and more. Built tooling to standardize application development across the backend engineering team streamlining onboarding from days to hours.Working with.

New York

Designed a no downtime replacement for highly critical business software that was no longer keeping up with growth. Utilizing my deep knowledge of NodeJS+Javascript performance along with other optimization techniques my software scaled to multiple cores and multiple servers running in parallel. Part of the team that from scratch built a warehouse.

New York City

Designed a no downtime replacement for highly critical business software that was no longer keeping up with growth. Utilizing my deep knowledge of NodeJS+Javascript performance along with other optimization techniques my software scaled to multiple cores and multiple servers running in parallel.Part of the team that from scratch built a warehouse.

New York City

• Built an internal service to handle weather and surf forecasts in Node.js using MongoDBas storage and cache layer
• Being a heavy PHP and design shop, my focus on JavaScript allowed me to quicklybecome the goto person for anything JavaScript related especially debugging.
• Assisted with development of a Drupal based music store. Drupal being such a largeCMS along with the site nearing the end of development meant I was thrown in thedeep end. With little time and a large unfamiliar code.

Remote

Writing HTML and CSS to design specifications and using JavaScript to provide UI enhancements. Implemented pages in Wordpress and researching appropriate plugins to provide requested functionality as well as extending those plugins as needed.