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Hi, I'm Nick!

• 👋  I'm a senior software engineer, based in Austin Texas
• 👨‍💻  I work at Ojo Canada
• 📖  You can find my detailed job history here
• 📫  Get in touch with me - nick@nickakey.com

Passions

👨‍🏫   I'm passionate about education

• 🇲🇽  In 2018 I lived in Mexico City and taught deportees Computer Science
• 📹  Some of my Javascript video lectures have become very popular on Youtube
• 📣  I routinely give a popular talk called How to Ace your Interview with Memory Science
• 🎹   I have an interactive talk called How to Play Music by Ear

🕶  Side Projects

• 📷  Notion Cover Generator
  • Generate custom cover images for Notion
  • Featured on NotionJoy.com, and NotionChina.co
• 📕  ReadHabit.io
  • A mobile-first web app to help you build a reading habit
• 😍  Both projects designed by the super talented Marcela Cárdenas (who also happens to be my fiancè ;)

Software Engineering Work

History

• 📅  I've been working as software engineer since 2017

My Skills

• 🥞  I'm a full stack engineer.
• 🎨  Front End
  • React
  • Typescript
  • Redux, Mobx, Apollo
• 🦾  Back End
  • Javascript: Node & Express
  • Kotlin: Spring & Spring Boot
  • Ruby: Ruby on Rails
  • PSQL, SQL, Mongo.