Christopher
Nieves

Software engineer

Building product experiences, developer tooling, and test infrastructure for complex systems.

Based in Saratoga Springs, NY

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Selected work

Flock project screenshot

Flock

A progressive web app concept for finding group runs.

  • React
  • Redux
  • Sequelize
  • Socket.io
  • Leaflet
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Candy Co. project screenshot

Candy Co.

A mock online candy store.

  • React
  • Redux
  • Sequelize
  • Stripe
  • Tailwind CSS
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Fitness-TS

A mock gym website built with TypeScript, React, and Tailwind CSS.

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
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Contracted Site

A portfolio and storefront concept for a photographer, with space to showcase work and sell photography and video resources.

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About
Christopher

I studied physics and chemistry at SUNY Potsdam, then trained at Fullstack Academy before working as a software engineer.

Based in

Saratoga Springs, NY

Skills

Core skills

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Elixir
  • PostgreSQL
  • Next.js
  • Playwright

Currently strengthening

  • Python
  • GCP

Outside work

Soccer · Running · Rock Climbing

The path so far

Experience & education

Work experience

  1. April 2024 – August 2026

    Full-Stack Software Engineer

    Mimic
    • Owned customer-facing management-plane features across React, Elixir, OpenAPI, and automated testing as the platform grew from zero to 1,000+ live nodes protecting systems such as Active Directory.
    • Built configuration and revision workflows for creating, editing, applying, comparing, previewing, and rolling back node protections, with immediate feedback for schema errors, malformed JSON, and invalid access-control lists.
    • Delivered real-time updates with Phoenix Channels and responsive incident-response workflows across phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops.
    • Cut CI time by roughly 50% by moving frontend tests to Vitest and Playwright, and modernized about 240 API tests from Bash to TypeScript and Bun as PR-blocking and daily CI.
    • Created a company-wide design system with more than 50 primitives and 15 composite components, adopted by every UI-building team.
  2. September 2021 – April 2024

    Teaching Fellow

    Fullstack Academy
    • Mentored more than 60 students per cohort and 300 overall in data structures, algorithms, architecture, debugging, and clean code; every student under direct mentorship graduated.
    • Led lectures on data structures, algorithms, React hooks, PostgreSQL, and Prisma, while reviewing code and guiding teams through architecture and delivery decisions.

Education

  1. Fullstack Academy

    Software Engineering

  2. SUNY Potsdam

    Physics & Chemistry

Let’s connect.

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