Hi, I'm
Nick Osborn.
I like to write code and bake bread.
I play piano, paint (mostly oil), and lift weights.
You can find me on github.
(though these days 99% of the code I write is proprietary)
Curious about me? Read on.
Professional Timeline
Today
What shall I do today?
Entrust - Promoted!
Software Developer II + Scrum Master for ECAP team
Promoted to Dev II as the technical lead for a new platform project. Still learning! Introduced TDD to my fledging team, which has since grown to multiple full time developers. Taking on new responsibilities and much higher visibility, regularly meeting with leadership for demos, and with PM/UX as a product trio.
Entrust
Software Developer I - Enterprise
A full time gig writing code! Making full-stack contributions to Entrust Certificate Services, enabling customers to manage certificate inventory. From here, the vast majority of the code I've written is proprietary. Learning a lot!
Northeastern University
Full time student again!
Left CS&A to pursue my masters full time.
Northeastern University
Matriculated (again)!
It was time to formalize my credentials with a Masters in Computer Science. And I wasn't quite ready to leave my job.
Carney, Sandoe, & Associates
Hired! Technology Associate
My first post-grad job. A small 30-person company, with an even smaller 3-person technology team, meant that I wore a lot of hats. From fixing employees print drivers, to implementing new web services to facilitate API interactions.
Bates College
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Physics
Earned my undergraduate degree, dabbling in computer science as a hobbyist. Wrote a mathematics thesis titled Convolution and Neural Networks under the advisory of Prof. Katharine Ott. Nominated as a result to the Sigma Xi Research Honor Society.
Bates College
Matriculated!
Moved from the sleepy suburbs of Boston to the sleepy town of Lewiston, ME for my undergraduate education. Recruited to row, and ended up playing Ultimate Frisbee instead.
Projects
osbornnick.com
March 2022
You're looking at it! My personal website tells my story and acts as a portfolio of my code. With a fair amount of experience using React (2+ projects), I chose to extend my knowledge and learn a new framework, and landed on Svelte. Mostly because it was voted the most loved on Stack Overflow's 2021 developer survey. SvelteKit was a natural choice for a stream-lined development experience, and tailwind is my favorite way to keep css in class declarations. The nifty timeline graphic is built with SVG, and is meant to look like a git history.
VISIT OSBORNNICK.COMNextGenDragRace
December 2021
Final project for CS5160 Web Development for the fall 2021 semester at Northeastern University. A kind of fantasy league for RuPaul's Drag Race. Users can view information on their favorite queens, add those queens to saved rosters, and comment on each others rosters and queens/seasons. Uses Google Firebase to manage user logins, sessions, and comment information. The domain information (i.e. Queens, Seasons, Challenges) is provided by the freely available NoKeyNoShade API.
VISIT NEXTGENDRAGRACE
