I’m Nick Escobedo — an engineering leader who loves solving complex problems through code, mentoring teams, and building great software. Outside of work, I’m into video games, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and all things pizza and spicy food.
Senior Engineering Manager – Green Street
- Lead and mentor a team of 3-9 full stack developers.
- Partner with product teams and stakeholders to plan, scope, and communicate technical trade-offs and estimates clearly.
- Established and enforced SDLC best practices, definitions of ready/done, architecture reviews, and CI/CD.
- Instituted code governance across teams by embedding standards into automated pipelines.
- Multiple major product launches on time, expanding the platform into new regions.
Past
Chief Software Architect – Tidal Commerce
- Bridge the gap between the non-technical side of business to the dev team.
- Aide in business decision making by helping people understand trade-offs for technical decisions.
- Provide input in executive meetings helping steer the company.
- Manage dev team and process.
- All Senior Web Developer responsibilities listed below.
Senior Web Developer – Tidal Commerce
- Organize dev team to use agile.
- Function as team lead and project manager.
- Work with each of the team members to QA their code and give feedback based on requirements and architecture.
- Go to person when someone has architecture questions.
- Build test suite from 0 tests to over 900 tests.
- Create and document a REST API for our dashboard using Stoplight and Laravel resources.
- Establish QA and deployment procedures.
- Setup our GitHub and Gitlab CI/CD environments.
- Integrations with financial, risk management, and other types of systems using JSON and SOAP.
- Maintain/setup production, demo, and staging servers as needed (AWS, Forge, Digital Ocean).
Senior Web Developer – envisionit
- Implemented new features for Laravel SAAS app using industry best practices.
- Expanded Laravel test suite from 300 to over 1200 PHPUnit tests greatly reducing time spent fixing defects.
- Advised and assist implementation with strategy for application testing.
- Introduced industry standards and best practices both non-technical and technical (testing, agile, architecture).
- Assisted project manager and other developers gather questions and requirements for user stories.
- Rewrote UI components to use Vue.
- Used Git flow to establish a good team flow for deploying.
Web Application Developer – Highland Solutions
- Created multi-tenant travel application in Laravel and MySQL along with an API.
- Integration with external systems using APIs and flat data files.
- Built web apps in 5-8 person distributed self-organizing agile team.
- Created code with testability, reusability, and maintainability in mind.
- Communicated with external clients and users to understand purpose and value.
- Championed best practices and industry standards for team (testing, code reviews, architecture).
- Knowledge of PCI, HIPAA, PHI, and PII compliance requirements.
Questions?
Contact me via the contact page or at [email protected].