Nick Zayatz

Lead Front-End Engineer

Specializing in modern React and TypeScript ecosystems with mobile development skills as an additional strength.

Charlotte, NC

/nickzayatz
nzayatz14@gmail.com
github.com/nzayatz14
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Technical Skills

Primary Expertise

  • React.js(9 years)
  • TypeScript(9 years)
  • JavaScript(10 years)
  • Next.js (App Router)(1 year)
  • Material-UI (MUI)(6 years)
  • React Router(9 years)
  • Redux & Redux Toolkit(9 years)
  • HTML5(10 years)
  • CSS3(10 years)
  • SASS/SCSS(6 years)

Additional Skills

  • Product Development(9 years)
  • Code Review & Testing(8 years)
  • Git & Version Control(11 years)
  • NPM & Yarn(9 years)
  • Tailwind CSS(<1 year)
  • Kotlin/Android(7 years)
  • Swift/iOS(4 years)
  • Java(12 years)
  • Handlebars(6 years)
  • WebSockets(9 years)

Supplementary Tools

  • Webpack(as needed)
  • Create React App/CRACO(as needed)
  • Bash(as needed)
  • Google Tag Manager(as needed)
  • Auth0(as needed)
  • AWS Amplify (Web/Mobile)(as needed)
  • LeafletJS & Mapbox(as needed)
  • Stripe(as needed)
  • Twilio(as needed)
  • Fastlane(as needed)

Professional Experience

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

Aug 2015 - Present

Cirtual LLC · New Orleans, LA / Charlotte, NC

  • Architecting and leading front-end product development across multiple platforms including web, iOS, and Android
  • Facilitating development lifecycles on projects across various industries
  • Influencing company vision, crafting product milestones, and executing business strategies
  • Conducting interviews with potential new hires as well as onboarding and mentoring front-end developer hires

Projects

LoadHive [logistics]Apr 2020 - Present

  • Leading web development with React.js, Typescript, React Router, and Redux to streamline carrier operations
  • Spearheading Android development with Kotlin and XML to improve driver interactions with carriers
  • Utilizing Material Design principles on both web and Android as scalable and maintainable component libraries
  • Creating an advanced build process using Bash, Webpack, and Fastfile to give clients white-label applications
  • Using Websockets to handle large amounts of real time driver updates and load postings
  • Cutting daily dispatcher workload by 3.5+ hours by implementing automation and improving fleet management
  • Implementing various other features such as login with AWS Amplify, driver mapping displays with LeafletJS, and custom email templates with Handlebars

Focus Automated Equities [finance]May 2016 - Oct 2022

  • Used React, Javascript, React Router, and Redux to rebuild dashboards to monitor business performance in the stock market, significantly improving performance over the legacy jQuery based dashboards
  • Utilized Websockets to handle significant streams of real time market data
  • Processed large data sets using Java and rendering them in Highcharts to reduce load time of analytical graphs
  • Enhanced a large legacy Javascript/jQuery codebase to streamline selection of possible trading neural networks

SustainaBase [sustainability]Aug 2020 - Dec 2021

  • Provided technical guidance on technology stack and implementation approaches for architecting the product
  • Planned and built new iterations of the users dashboard using React, TypeScript, Redux, and Material-UI

DOCPACE [healthcare]May 2016 - Jul 2019

  • Worked on early iterations of the admin site for managing medical appointments using React.js, TypeScript, React Router, and Redux
  • Implemented a mobile-first web page to allow patients to check the status of their appointments as well as reschedule if needed

MySquad [social]May 2016 - Nov 2018

  • Built the consumer-facing iOS application using Swift, Storyboard, and ReSwift
  • Maintained the consumer-facing Android application using Java and XML

Co-Founder & Lead Front-End Engineer

Dec 2023 - Present

Phonelo, Inc. · Charlotte, NC

  • Leading the development of multiple web applications interfacing with Phonelo's AI-powered calling solution using Next.js, TypeScript, and Material-UI
  • Integrating with Twilio to support in-browser calling and writing scripts in VanillaJS to allow for embedding in-browser call buttons into external websites
  • Implementing various other features such as login with Auth0, third-party demo sites using TailwindCSS and Google Tag Manager, and an in-browser Handlebars editor for AI prompting
  • Contributing to business strategy, team management and product roadmap decisions

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

Jul 2020 - Aug 2022

Bidoro LLC · Charlotte, NC

  • Led front-end development using React.js, Typescript, React Router, and Redux to build a platform for real estate wholesalers to post properties for potential buyers
  • Implemented a WebGL mapping solution using Mapbox to performantly display large, filterable sets of properties
  • Integrated several other third-party libraries such as Stripe for payment processing, Auth0 for authentication, Twilio for in-browser chat between users, and Mixpanel for KPI tracking

Software Engineer

Dec 2014 - May 2016

High Point University · High Point, NC

  • Developed an iPad app using Swift and Storyboard to simulate market conditions for economics classes

Intern

Jun 2013 - May 2015

Woodbourne Solutions, Inc · Germantown, MD

Education

B.S. Computer Science, B.A. Mathematics

2012 - 2016

High Point University · High Point, NC

Summa Cum Laude

Extracurricular

Advisory Board Member

2023 - Present
Helping provide educational direction from an industry perspective to the Webb School of Engineering at High Point University

Roolet

2017 - 2018
An iOS app written in Swift and Storyboard to randomly call or facetime individuals from a list of friends you provide

Zipsy

2015
A location-based, photo sharing iOS app written in Swift and Storyboard where users can post photos of things happening around them; the catch is that they must pick at least 3 friends to reveal their identity to before posting

Album Pop

2014 - 2015
An iOS app written in Swift and Storyboard that can turn any photo into a music album or mixtape cover, has received over 100,000 downloads

Voting Theory Research

2013 - 2014
Writing programs in Java to help simulate elections of various types and search for monotonicity issues in Instant Run-off Voting (IRV) with a few different methods for a given data set. Results published in the Journal of Representative Democracy